After film school, I embarked on trying to promote independent films. But after a while, I realized I was breaking my back doing six-day-a-week shoots, 14-hour days, and no guarantee of distribution.

Going to film school taught me how much I already knew, and that the best way to learn about film is being on the set with professionals.

Home Alone' had become the absolute biggest film I had ever done, and it became the third-highest grossing film of all time. So clearly it had an effect on me that is unparalleled to any other film experience in my childhood.

You can have a great character in a really bad script, and the film will never be seen. It's just too much work to commit to a film and not have it released.

Maybe if I was born in Kosovo, I might not be where I am now, so I need to thank Switzerland, of course, because I went to school there, learnt to play football there, and started my career there.

Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work.

Thank God, I have the opportunity to do what I love, which is my family and work on a business and try and make it the best that it can be.

College is something I've always said I wanted to do, but you're going there to get a piece of paper that says you can get a job, but if I'm already working steadily and doing good work, it makes you question your priorities. Right now, I'm in my own film college: filming a TV show.