But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.

My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.

My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.

I go off and make movies I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls.

They have had such a crazy life living with me as their dad. Not crazy but different from their friends.