Why

With me its simple. I love movies. I love them more than anything else in life. I talk about them so much that people get pissed off at me. I see at least 2 new movies a week along with constantly rewatching my old favorites. When you love something with all your soul its only natural to want to spend your life devoted to it. Besides, I love telling stories and I really enjoy the whole process, so much work goes into making a film.

Because I watched Star Wars too many times and wanted to bring joy to someone through story the way those movies did to me.

Well for me it's simple but yet different. I enjoy writing because I feel personally I have something to say more then the average person, but my stories rely more on detail then anything else. That's not to say I cannot write a solid story because I can and I have. For me it's more then just 'liking movies' yes I do have an appreciation for them, but it goes beyond just sitting there with a bucket of popcorn and watching a film for an hour and a half. I study films everything from the story to the music and even the visuals. I feel I understand them, but not in a way that it ruins it for myself and other that I may watch them with. Anyway I guess I am 'in this' or doing this because I feel I can personally become a wonderful screenwriter and director someday. In fact if you really want to go in-depth the stories I create are loaded with description because I want the reader or viewer to feel as if they are there inside of it every second, I sent one of my stories to CHUD and they kind of just tossed it away because of the description, it pisses me off, but hey what can I say if they don't like my writing no big deal because I know somebody else out there will and the fact of the matter is I write stories that appeal to me, they aren't for everyone because lets face it, they came from my mind and my imagination. Also not to sound selfish but I write camera angles in my screenplays as well, and that's a big no no, but the fact is I'm the one who's looking to direct these not anyone else, because these are my stories and my thoughts and my hard work poured into them. A lot of people say the only way to get anywhere is to give a little or sometimes to move forward you have to take a step back, but my theory is if you have the heart and the desire you can do it, no matter how hard it may seem or how long it may take, if you believe in yourself and the work you do and you know it means something then you will succeed. I plan on becoming a great director and I'm going to do it my way, even if I have to work outside of the system because lets face it, anything's possible.

Simple.
Stories+Film=badassness

The belief that you can do something different.

And better.

intense burning visuals i have inside my head. gotta get 'em out somehow...

Because of the sheer lack of responsiblity that comes with fame and the pussy.

For quite a while, I was the staunchest critic around. If I didn't like a movie, I fucking hated it. I would rail against it for all eternity. So one day I had an Edward Norton/Brad Pitt conversation with myself about the whole asshole-film critic thing. So I says to myself, I says...

Put up or shut up, pal. You hate a flick, then do better. Otherwise, shut your fucking mouth. I haven't looked back since.

Why? Because I must.

Thats some inspiring shit...really.

Why? You will understand when you see my film.

hmmm. I started out as a journalist, a sports reporter. No, I take that back, I started out as a guy who wrote short stories and novels for my friends. I loved to tell stories and my friends were always bugging me for the next story.

I went to Oklahoma University, which at the time had the only accredited Professional Fiction Writing Program in the nation in it's Journalism department. I wanted to write books.

Then I got into Sports Reporting. Won a bunch of National awards for my reporting and was told I could get on with any newspaper I wanted. but I did not want that because of two things. (1) I hated working in the newsroom. (2) William Goldman.

See, in my senior capstone class, we read a book by William Goldman called Adventure's in the Screen Trade. That is when I tried out screenwriting and I loved it. More so than writing books and short stories. I flew through my first two screenplays and then switched majors to film and video.

I did not get what I wanted out of the program itself, all we did was study films, and that is not what I wanted. But I met people and together we set out to make movies.

I loved it. It was like it was what I was meant to do. It was something that I had been looking for and I finally found it. Unlike journalism, which I was good at but did not like much, this was something that I loved to do and found I had an eye for.

I bought a camera and now I can make movies. It is a love for both movies (all kinds, my DVD collection is over 275 now) and the process behind making them. It is the love for it that answers the question why. It is not a desire to make a shitty industry better, because I like what I see most of the time. It is the love for it that moves me on.

"Good luck with all that."
-Jerry Seinfeld