“I lived in a small town. It was 2000 people in Canada. A little river that went through it and we swam in the — you know, there was a lot of water around. Niagara Falls was about four or five miles away. The Niagara Falls. And so, you know, I’ve always sort of loved the water — possibly as a result of that, and that has manifested itself obviously in my work.” “I look back at, you know, I was at ten years old or nine years old, and I’m the same person now, you know, and in essence–in wanting to build things and wanting to get a lot of people together and do some grandiose thing, whether it was build a fort or a tree house, or an airplane. Once we built an airplane. Not intending it to fly, just hang from a tree but, you know, that sort of thing. And I realize I’m just doing the same thing now. I’m just getting a bunch of kids to help me build a fort, except that now it takes 0 million, and the kids are all my age.” “My biology teacher was our muse at that time. And I think the fact that we were having to do everything, that it wasn’t handed to us, may have created a kind of a work ethic that paid off then in independent film production because it’s the same thing. You know, you’re finding scraps and bits and pieces, and putting it all together and putting on a show. And it’s that sense of being able to create some moment of glory, some showmanship — out of nothing, out of baling wire — that is maybe a lesson that was learned there as a result of this man who just …
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