"My earliest childhood memory is an incident where my older brother was screaming in agony because he had caught his genitals in his pants zipper. The memory extends to watching my father run into the bathroom with a pair of pliers in his hand.  The door was closed behind him and there was much screaming.  My mother has told me that that incident happened when I was just around two years old (my brother was seven).  Why do I mention it now? Well, because I believe that besides being a lasting memory for me (as well as for my brother – ouch!) it was also the occasion of my earliest mental film.  The term "film" is probably an overstatement, but I definitely recall a crystal clear mental visualization of what was happening out of my line of sight behind that closed bathroom door.  The cries of pain left a great deal to the imagination and I ran with it all the way into my mother's arms just around the time you would fade to black.

I love film.  Always have. Somebody tells me a joke, I see it in my head as an epic with a cast of thousands (no CG, these are real Cecil B-type extras).  Campfire ghost stories, too (although if you know me, you know I'm full of it here because in the South Bronx, growing up, the only fires were tenements being torched, but even they made good mental movie fodder).  Point is: I love film.  So much so that I left a cushy career making boo-coo bucks to follow that love.  Now I'm starving and I sell pencils on the corner, but I'm one happy pencil-selling mutha–(cut to Samuel L. Jackson doing what he does best).

My prior life included an extended tour of duty in the world of advertising agencies as a Group Creative Director.  That was 29 years (13 of them with Arnold Worldwide), 7 agencies (including also DDB Needham, J. Walter Thompson, and what is now Saatchi & Saatchi), over 90 clients, over 150 products, over 250 commercials, probably over a billion dollars – between production costs and media – spent on selling somebody's chocolate covered tuna fish (I'll explain it at the pre-pro).

What else can I say?  I love film."