How did you get into directing?I went to this boarding school called the Taft School, and every year they pick a couple of town kids to go. I don’t come from deep pockets, so some studying got me in, and they had this tech’d out video room called the Treehouse. So, I was lucky to…
How did you get into directing?We went from spending a lot of time just nerd-ing out on every video/film format around to shooting music videos for friends. There were a million late nights, hundreds of feet of film and lots of sweat along the way leading up to rounding out last year with multiple videos…
How did you get into directing?When I was a kid, I used to make short films using all the kids in the neighborhood. Westerns, music videos, anything I could dream up. I was also really into alternative forms of storytelling that included technology. I wrote choose-your-adventure games in Basic on my Commodore 64. I spent…
How did you get into directing?I worked on Wall Street for a number of years before I decided to go into the “picture” business. When I finally moved to Los Angeles, I was sure that I wanted to be a cinematographer. I worked in the camera department on Universal Studios’ Big Fat Liar and was…
How did you get into directing?Balcerek: I used to boss my twin brother around. I was five minutes older and it felt like the right thing to do. Belman: A junior in college, I signed up for a documentary filmmaking class that required me to create a 10 minute film. I went back to my…
How did you get into directing?It all started in Tokyo when I was cutting trailers for Japanese films. On weekends I would photograph the city’s idiosyncratic characters and gravity-defying architecture. The perfect soundtrack for this was the music of LTJ Bukem, legendary ‘Drum ‘N Bass’ artist. His label in London had signed a new artist…
How did you get into directing?My interest in making movies started when my dad bought a camcorder. I originally wanted to be a painter but because I was also a tech geek, I was really intrigued by cameras. I made a bunch of shorts when I was in high school, and eventually enrolled in film…
How did you get into directing?I grew up as a child actor for film, TV, and the stage. I did voiceovers, modeling, opera, all that stuff since the age of six. But I never, and I mean never had the notion of doing anything on the production side even though I was around it all…
How did you get into directing?My mom put a VHS camera in my little boy hands. What is your most recent project?I’m working on building a tree fort with my kid. What is the best part of being a director?I really don’t know. Have you a mentor and if so, who is that person (or…
How did you get into directing?We’ve always directed stuff. As kids, we used to use our parents camera to make fake tv shows. Then we began connecting with other people to direct different small projects. Every time we had an opportunity or a subject to work on, we would take it. If we were not…