I grew up loving Ridley Scott and Tony Scott and Michael Bay and Adrian Lyne.
I allow myself to get firmly sucked in. I love that! I come from that.
A lot of the commercials that I was doing were very slice-of-life emotional documentary-style not big and cinematic and ultimately like the kind of movie I wanted to make.
I spent a long time trying to make it in the commercial world hoping that commercials would then lead to movies. That was a less-travelled path at the time although it's very well-travelled now.