I started making little films with a 16 mm camera as an undergraduate at Yale. My first job out of college was 'assistant editor' on a forgettable low budget feature.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I first started working in film when I was 17. I was a director's assistant, an editor.
I started making my own short films as a way of being able to give myself something to do and to study my craft.
I really got into filmmaking through photography.
I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.
I really enjoy working on small films.
I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years.
I was doing well in TV as a freelance cameraman, but it wasn't the direction I wanted to go in. I directed videos and tried to put something cinematic in every one. Dialogue, action sequences, helicopter, Steadicam.
I knew from early on I would go to film school and try to work behind the camera.
I had no education in filmmaking. I started with a 8mm camera. I made 34 films, and little by little I gained more experience in filming.
I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.