“What I've found fascinating and, frankly, rewarding, is watching a cinema full of these attention deficit disordered, X-Box addicted kids settle in and become engrossed in this story because the emotions are real and the situations portrayed have more depth than they're used to. I've even seen the parents become concerned because the kids are so enrapt - getting scared, getting emotional, clapping when things go right. This is what I remember the movie going experience being when I was a kid. I wanted my son to have that emotional roller coaster ride - not just another hammering of the senses.”

“It is my opinion that when a person reads a book, they are making their own movie with their imagination. And that is a movie with a limitless budget and casting possibilities and shaped exactly as they would like to have it.There is no way I can compete with that; therefore, I think it is very important for the film to stand up on its own merits and exist as its own piece of work.”

He graduated from Columbia University in 1984 in screenwriting and directing.  His first film was a Sundance Institute project, his first jobs were in commercials.  As well as films he has also worked in TV and made documentaries.