We had a sort of five-year plan. Neil wanted to go off and do Hollywood, while I wanted to make little films in my barn, on my own, and not show them to anybody, and see how it went. And the idea was, I'd get a point of view, and he'd get some clout, and then we'd meet up in a few years and make a feature film. Which is pretty much how it worked.

[I] learned that you don't start up a new computer-rendering studio during production.

We've grown up together, so there's no b------- in our relationship. We test each other, and provoke each other into trying new things.