It has been a year since I graduated from film school and what a year it has been. Under my belt I have a couple of commercials, a completed script, a script 2/3rds done, and a 9 to 5 job. Now the 9-5 is not a shock to me. Right after I graduated I got the job because I knew I would have bills to pay and wanted to actually eat more than once a day. So I don't look at the 9-5 as a failure to realize my dreams, shit, my dreams are stronger now than ever.
By my nature, I am an impatient person. I want instant gratification and only recently have I learned how to accept letting things come with time. So every time I watch a movie it should come as no surprise that I want to be a director NOW! Not a commercial director, or a webisode director, but a feature film director. Not that those others are not noble professions, they are just not my ultimate dream. I know many successful filmmakers will tell me to keep working at it, keep filming on the nights and weekends and staying up wayyyyy too late to write the next great story, but dammit I want it NOW!
The hardest part is that there is no set path to being a film director. If you want to be a doctor, you go to med school, you are a resident, then you (hopefully) become a doctor. If you want to be the CEO of a large company, you get your MBA, you work at an entry level position, and work your way up to be top dog. But for film?! I'll be damned if there is a set path you can see that will lead one to being a director. One of the Farrelly brothers was selling circular beach towels before he wrote and directed Dumb and Dumber! Not any beach towel...CIRCULAR BEACH TOWELS! I just wish I knew what I was doing wrong, or right for that matter, so I know that I might be somewhere NEAR a path to filmmaking. But in this business, I just have to keep trudging along, keep filming, keep writing, and making sure that if any opportunity comes my way I am ready to take it. Here goes nothing....
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