Robert Rodriguez has revealed he loves making family films because he can put all his “crazy ideas” into them.
The filmmaker has been at the helm of action flicks like Planet Terror and Sin City, and child-friendly offerings like Spy Kids and says they are equally enjoyable “for different reasons”.
“With the action movies, you know you can’t quite have crocodiles running around on two legs, but this movie, anything you can come up with you can put in,” he continued.
Shorts, which stars three of the director’s sons, follows a young boy who discovers a rock that grants wishes.
It opens in the UK on August 21.