I studied photography at Bard, but I just felt tired of it. Someone asked me to be in a video but didn't want to be in it, so they told me to make my own, and that seemed more fun to me.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I really got into filmmaking through photography.
I always saw photography as a way to get to film.
I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.
I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
Photography is a hobby born out of my time in undergrad at USC. It is more of a pleasurable hobby, a stress reliever. I don't consider it a professional endeavor like acting or directing.
I am a very keen photographer. I have enjoyed taking pictures since I was a kid with my family, but I became more serious about it at university.
And I'm a pretty avid photographer, I've been into photography for years now, so I try to spend some of my free time with that.
I had been teaching myself photography.
I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.