Charles Martin Smith

Lived for three years in Paris, France, as a youth where his film cartoonist and animator father Frank Smith managed the English-language branch of a French animation studio.

I intend to do things of artistic integrity. I grew up thinking that every movie should be A Primeira Noite de um Homem (1967). I don't want to do something just because it might be commercially popular--it's more important to do something that has meaning.