I'd already started playing around with my dad's Super 8 camera, making little war films and stuff. And then, after Star Wars, my films all became space films. I think when I was about 12 or 13, I want to say, I started to begin to identify with the idea of the director as the sort of controlling force, or the closest analogy to what I was doing on my Super 8 camera, you know, just making images and putting them together.

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