The idea of creating film scores was terrifying for many years, into my 30s. It struck me as a career of doing 30-page term papers the night before they're due.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
I always liked film as a teaching tool - a way of getting exposed to ideas that had never been presented to me. It just wasn't on the list of career options where I grew up.
As a kid, I was just writing scripts and taking whatever film classes I could in college.
Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.
I went to college thinking of maybe pursuing a career in film criticism.
Being a little bit of a movie buff, the fact that I'm working in the middle of movie history is incredible.
One tends to overlook the fact that all during the 30's and actually during the late 40's I was a highly successful writer and a great many properties accumulated during that period of time.
I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few pages into one.
I dropped out of college and ended up making this feature film I wrote when I was 19 with some friends. It was terrible.
I grew up on film scores and scores from films.