2006

The ideas of time-travel and of multiple lifetimes have always intrigued me in their similarities. It's the stuff of fantasies and stories throughout history. And somehow in these times the idea of multiple lifetimes has become more accepted.

The biggest inspiration for the story was hearing Lucas as a toddler, speak about the time he was in the stars before he came here to earth. Of course it might just have been his imagination. Later on he would come up with these fantastic stories where he was one of the players -stories about traveling in time, planting the tree of life, walking on water, or being able to visit any place in the world and live there for a whole year in a matter of seconds. He told one friend that I had battled the Nazis in a U-boat and then narrowly escaped by hitching a ride on a dolphin while he rode on a whale. His young friend, of course believed every word.

I started to see the value of his jumping around in his imagination. And I started to draw from it myself. At the same time I, was going from one lifetime into another in the rocket ship of divorce. My ex-wife and I had always written together. As a response to our separation, I decided that it was time for me to strike out on my own.

In the beginning I had no high aspirations. I was looking to make a short film. I finished the first draft; 22 pages.