How did you get into directing?I was 20, in college, and working at a Chinese restaurant. I worked in takeout and made friends with one of the food runners. All shift, every shift, he and I talked about movies. One day he comes in and tells me he’s applying to film school. Says he wants…
How did you get into directing?My first films were class assignments in high school. In lieu of writing a paper, I’d get a group together and we would film spoofs of books we studied. They were big hits with classmates as we were basically making fun of “Lord of the Flies,” “Julius Caesar” or what…
How did you get into directing?Rather circuitously. I’ve always known I wanted to work in film and I think, perhaps secretly, I’ve always harbored an ambition to direct. It just took about eight years in the theater, a dalliance in truly terrible video art and finally a six-year progression through the ranks of film production…
How did you get into directing?I’ve always been fascinated by capturing reality, originally in photographs, later with a film camera. Now when I work from a script or storyboard, I am searching to reproduce this glimpse of authenticity every time I train the camera on anything, I am going for this moment that is most…
How did you get into directing?I’m pretty sure I was born this way. I gathered kids around me to put on a show in kindergarten and my mom was told I would be in the entertainment business. Then there was the time at a restaurant when I stared at the TV screen showing a music…
How did you get into directing?After my first internship at a production company, I realized a cinema commercial for a local newspaper. Together with a good friend, I developed the idea and also directed the piece. I was 21 years old and it was an incredible experience. Then I knew that I want to tell…
How did you get into directing?I’ve always loved film but truth be told, not growing up around it, I didn’t know what a director was until high school. Once I learned the role of a director, I began to look for avenues that would get me there the quickest. I was good at computers and…
How did you get into directing?Actually, writing and directing has always been the path for me. Advertising was the 20-year detour. I earned my Film degree from The University of Texas at Austin in the ‘80s. But, after a few short films and an ill-fated development deal, I took a salary job in the agency…
How did you get into directing?I was born and raised in Norway and have early memories of watching my grandfather’s 16 mm film on a projector in his study. He was one of the last pioneers of the north, exploring new territories in the Arctic region and documenting vast portions of these journeys. The images…
How did you get into directing?As a kid I was always very interested in film and television. So much so that I started going on castings in my home town of Miami, Florida. One of the first things I got cast in was an episode of Miami Vice in the 1980’s. While on the set…