My mother always kept us involved in various types of art.
My dad was a low budget film director. I grew up as a kid making movies, based on the love of seeing what my dad was doing.
My mother is a poet/novelist, and my father was a pianist and cook. Both artists who colored my personality and brain in ways I'm still discovering!
Both my uncles were in bands, my grandpa was a comedian who wore clown makeup on stage.
My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.
Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life.
I grew up doing musical theater.
All of my children are the same way I am. They're little artists too, in their own ways.
Growing up, I was on film sets occasionally, when my dad was acting, so I got to run around and do odd jobs on films like 'Labyrinth' and others... I seemed destined to make films.
We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so it's not a surprise that all of us are in some form of the arts.
I grew up with a glue gun pointed at my head.
My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts.
My dad is an English teacher, and my mom is a textiles artist. My parents made my sisters and me feel that if we wanted to pursue something creative, it could be done. They've always been supportive of everything from the beginning.
I got to grow up in an incredibly artistic family.
My father was a screenwriter, and I kind of grew up in that world.
Both my parents were painters.
The suspicious parent makes an artful child.
My mother raised me to be a writer.
I feel really fortunate to come from a home that was always supportive and stemming from creativity, integrity and building character.
I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.
My mother wrote a couple of romances when I was a kid, and I always saw books in our bookshelf with 'Schroeder' on the spine.
My dad is a director/producer and my mom is a dancer; she performed with Alvin Ailey, but I didn't even think about becoming an actress.
I come from very creative parents.
I grew up the son of a director and grew up on sets myself, so I was the kid getting dragged around from this set to that set and I loved it. There's something about it which is really interesting.
I was brought up with an incredible amount of freedom and creativity.
