I started in the psychological thriller side of feature filmmaking with 'Spiral,' which was the first one that I wrote and directed and played the lead in.
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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.
Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that.
Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film.
I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.
I did a good bit of episodic television directing, but directing a movie is so much more complicated.
I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.
My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was basically a mini-masterclass for acting on film at a time when all you could probably see were my eyebrows bouncing up and down on screen.
When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience.
I was in a movie called 'Vanishing on 7th Street,' and that was my first leading role in a movie. It's an apocalyptic thriller, and it's really cool. It's the first movie I ever shot.
I took an incredibly roundabout route getting into feature films.