How did you get into directing?I’m not sure what triggered my interest in film but by middle school I knew that’s what I was going to do. I studied film at college and worked mostly as a DP. I had always planned on directing, and coming up through the camera department helped me develop a…
How did you get into directing?I first got excited about film directing when I realized that it combines all the media I love to work in: performance, photography, design, sound, and music. Then I specialized in animation when I discovered that you can be a total control freak. Making short films was a great way…
How did you get into directing?When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor. I had a friend whose dad would get bit parts on TV and he gave me a script of a cop show he was on that I pored over. After an embarrassing summer at theater camp when I was…
How did you get into directing?In the UK I studied architecture, and taught myself computer graphics as I did that. I moved into architectural visualization and animation, and soon started shooting very visual effects heavy films for architects and developers, especially while at Uniform, in Liverpool. After moving to New York, I worked in visual…
How did you get into directing?I’ve always wanted to be a director. Maybe I’m just bossy. I moved to New York after college and got involved with the improv community in town heavily. Performing in live weekly shows, we started adding video pieces into the productions that I would direct. This was before YouTube. By…
How did you get into directing?I was gearing up to put my first short film (Sugar) together and while looking for a director, my producer simply asked me, “why don’t you just direct it?” That was the first moment I realized I could direct, essentially just assuming the role of director. After reading “On Directing…
How did you get into directing?When I was six years old on holiday in Israel, I peeked through the window of a beachside motel room and discovered the giant glowing faces of a man and a woman kissing. This “vision” was Claude Lelouch’s A Man and a Woman playing on an adjacent drive-in movie screen….
How did you get into directing?I started at Arts school and Louis started at a local cable TV station where we grew up. A coastal town called Kapiti in New Zealand. What is your most recent project?We are writing a feature film about a boy who runs away from home and joins a shoplifting gang…
How did you get into directing?I studied film and English at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. My first short film was about a little girl born with a birthmark in the likeness of the great wall of China on her stomach. It won a number of festival awards. Both my parents are documentary filmmakers so I…
How did you get into directing?I was always fascinated by other people’s stories, their behavior, small situations or gestures one observes at home or on the street. And I could not resist the idea of recreating these on film, which is why I ended up going to study film directing at the renowned Prague Film…