Growing up I'd always been very interested in drawing and composing music, so naturally I assumed one of those would become my future career path. But then one day in 1999, on a ferry coming back from Denmark, I saw a movie on the on-board cinema - a little-known sci-fi film called 'The Matrix'. To say it blew me away would be a gigantic understatement - I literally couldn't speak for several minutes after seeing it. It affected me the way I imagine 'Star Wars' must have affected an entire generation when it first came out in 1977.

I had always enjoyed watching films, but up until then my usual fare had been Disney movies and certain family favourites, but 'The Matrix' changed my whole world. I began to appreciate cinema as art rather than just entertainment, and over the years my interest turned into an obsession. I would learn about masters of the art - like Spielberg, Kubrick and Hitchcock - and I educated myself on how to distinguish good films from bad. Even now I still watch several new films a week, and I'm constantly learning about the medium of film and its endless possibilities.

The more films I saw, the more I noticed how (more often than not) the best films were ones that were directed by the same person who wrote them. Auteurs like Quentin Tarantino, M. Night Shyamalan and Kevin Smith would constantly impress me with their deeply personal stories, and it was films like 'Kill Bill', 'The Sixth Sense' and 'Clerks' that influenced my decision that being a writer / director was what I wanted to do with my life.

The first script I wrote was a school drama called 'Stairway', back in 2004. A year afterwards came 'Providence', a romantic comedy set in london, and a year after that came 'Devolution', and action / sci-fi epic set in the future (excerpts from all these scripts can be found under the 'Scripts' section of this website) but the first script I wrote that got made into an actual film was my forth - 'Take' (for more information, go to the 'Take' section of this website).

Since then I have written several more projects, including a teen romance called 'September', and a television sitcom called 'Wet Gun'. I have at least half a dozen other projects currently in the outline/basic idea stage, which I'm sure will come to fruition some day in some form or other, but for now my priorities are finding funding and a producer for 'Stairway' and 'Wet Gun'.

- Eric