I come from the school of thought that believes if you're going to spend most of your day doing a task it's best that the task is one that you like. After all, why would you waste some much of your life doing something you don't like.
Film has always been a part of me. From Jurassic Park to Star Wars to Armageddon to The Departed, films inspire my imagination and create a thirst to explore ideas and emotions and life in general. I have a passion to entertain not only me but those around me and I have chose to fulfill that passion through the source that entertains me: movie making. The first dimly lit idea to the projection of a moving picture... these things and everything in between make up my world.
Since I was young I began creating stories and acting them out, whether it was with plastic dinosaurs or pillow stand-ins for lightsabers. It's always been a delight of mine to create fantastical worlds and explore them with other people... and to make people laugh. I grew up in a small town with a very loving family. 3 brothers and a sister made things interesting and there's no doubt that I've had so many good times with them. At the same time, when I look back most of what I remember never existed. It was all imaginary stories that took me away to places that can never really be.
Once reality, or what we all have come to call high school, kicked into my life I have always tried to find a way to go back to these imaginary worlds. When I was presented with the idea of what career to choose it seemed like film was the only option that was going to take me back to these places. It's probably important to say that during high school I became a movieaholic. My curiosity for how movies were made and the people behind them jump started me. To say the least, my younger brother rolls his eyes every time he comes into my room and sees special features or director's commentary on television screen... but I think he understands what I'm feeling.
It's interesting. I write this sounding like a filmmaker, and although I technically have created a film before it's still weird when I know that there is a whole journey ahead of me before I can get to all of my dreams. First is getting through college and meeting people that can become mentors and friends to help guide me along the way.
I guess the reason I write like a consider myself a filmmaker is because making movies seems like the only thing logical and that keeps me driving. If I'm going to live my life doing one task for most of my day (and night) then it better be something I like doing... it better be filmmaking.
