Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.
When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also.
Even though some of the films I've made haven't been particularly commercial, I don't find them failures.