I actually didn't really start to get into the research of film until I was much older. I decided I wanted to direct a lot earlier than I started to do the research, which is really strange, but it is the case.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Film is something I've always loved since I was very young. In fact, I actually wanted to study to be a filmmaker when I was younger.
I did my first film when I was in the final year of my graduation. At that time, I was still a kid, and I couldn't read the industry very well.
When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with.
If you were in the film industry at that time, you were always picked up by directors who were much older. You were whisked about and shown things. I did work very hard though.
By the time I was 21, I knew what I wanted to do, and that was to direct films.
I didn't come from a background of films. I didn't even really ever watch films. The fact is, my parents weren't into that stuff, and neither was I.
There was a point of frustration, where I thought I should just take a film, even though I didn't want to. I was impatient with being at home. But I hung on to the approach I've always had, which is to wait for a project that I could contribute something unique to.
You finish a project and start looking for something that might interest you. A lot of the films I've made are a reaction to something I've done right before.
For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.
I often make films about subjects I don't really know much about. Maybe it's laziness, but I don't go in there having done a tonne of research; the research happens while I'm making the film.