When I was seventeen, eighteen I got to go to film school, being a film director was what I had planned on being when I grew up. When I was fifteen, sixteen I was obsessed with Tim Burton and Stanley Kubrick and I felt like some combination of those two guys and it was exactly what I wanted to do with myself. then life just took its various twists and turns; I kind of got tossed around a little bit and didn't make my first feature until I was forty-one years old. So by the time I had arrived there I had compiled an ongoing and deepening appreciation and education for the new guard and how they get films made and how they function. I had especially focused on screenwriting, which is the most essential component to any successful movie, so cobbling all those things together I felt reasonably confident on day one, what to say, how to stand, and what I needed.
