I started making movies with my friends in high school around 1987.  They were "fun" little movies, including the 'It Came From the Trash Bin' quadrilogy*.  We had no illusions that they were anything more than things we were doing to pass the time. Although, this was at a time when video editing was "tape-to-tape", and the quality of a VHS image after it went through two generations to dub in music and sound effects left a lot to be desired.  Even though VHS was the best we could afford at the time, the "quality" made me cringe.  Still, my friends and I made a lot of movies and we honestly did try to make them as well as we could under those conditions.

In 1989, I moved to Southern California to attend California Lutheran University.  It was at the end of my first semester that I was sitting in a movie theater, and I was really moved by a scene I was watching, and I thought, "that's what I want to do."

Several years later, technology made it possible to make affordable "quality" movies, and that was when I began in earnest to start making movies.

In the meantime, I've been earning a living since 1996 as a visual effects artist in Hollywood, mainly using After Effects on a Mac.

* The fourth film in the series 'It Came From the Trash Bin IV: Love in the Dumps' was digitally re-mastered, and released as the '10-Year Anniversary Special Edition Director's Cut of 'It Came From the Trash Bin IV: Love in the Dumps.'  Curiously, it was ten minutes shorter than the original version.