Film brings together framing and light and color and performance and music and all of that. To me, everything I've done in my life has been preparing me for filmmaking.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.
I like the feeling of making things. It's very very rewarding. And filmmaking is that type of experience, where you're forced to collaborate with so many people. You're involved in the beginning to end, you're involved with so many elements, and when it's done, you're like, 'I made this movie.'
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.
Filmmaking can give you everything, but at the same time, it can take everything from you.
Filmmaking is incredible introspective. It forces you to sort of examine yourself in new ways.
As a filmmaker, the only way that I understand how to make a film is holistically.
For me, filmmaking is not exactly a career. I was never in it for Hollywood or anything. My films are markers of where I am in life, where I am in my head. So that's what I'm working on, and I try to keep things in proportion - life and filmmaking. One feeds into the other.
The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.
Making films has never just been a job to me; it is my life. I have some interests outside of acting - I sing and I've written books, for instance - but acting is what keeps me going: it's what I do; it gives life purpose.
Film, for me, has been a process of learning on the job.