Prior to my previous post below, There were thing or two I picked up from Mr Jim Cameron,
that I thought worth to share..
Here it is :
"A lot of people ask me, you know, "What's the best advice to someone who wants to be a
director?" And the answer I give is very simple. "Be a director." Pick up a camera. Shoot
something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and
your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after
that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee."
"You never really "get" an opportunity. You take an opportunity. You know, in the film making
business no one ever gives you anything. Nobody ever taps you on the shoulder and say,
"You know, I've really admired the way you talk and the way you draw, and I think you'd make
a good director." It doesn't happen that way. You have to constantly be pulling on somebody's
sleeve saying, "Hey, I want to direct. I want to direct. I want to direct." And you have to be
willing to make sacrifices to do that. The mistake a lot of people, I think, make in Hollywood is
that they think, "Well, I'll get to the top of my field as a whatever, editor, production designer,
writer, and then I'll just move laterally into directing and I'll be more respected and I'll have
more power." It doesn't work that way, because you drop right to the bottom of the pack as a
director."
"Never give up because it's going to be unbelievably hard. It's going to be a ridiculously brutal,
uphill fight all the time, and you just have to have tremendous stamina and self-confidence to
power through it. You have to not listen to the nay sayers because there will be many and often
they'll be much more qualified than you and cause you to sort of doubt yourself. But, you know,
what I learned from those early days was to trust my instincts and to not back off, because
when the hour gets dark, you're instinct is to -- or your tendency might be to say, "Well, this is
just too hard and no, you know, nobody should have to go through this in order to accomplish
X," whether it's a movie or whatever. But to -- in the pursuit of excellence -- if it's how you
define it. You have to go all the way. It's that simple.
that I thought worth to share..
Here it is :
"A lot of people ask me, you know, "What's the best advice to someone who wants to be a
director?" And the answer I give is very simple. "Be a director." Pick up a camera. Shoot
something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and
your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after
that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee."
"You never really "get" an opportunity. You take an opportunity. You know, in the film making
business no one ever gives you anything. Nobody ever taps you on the shoulder and say,
"You know, I've really admired the way you talk and the way you draw, and I think you'd make
a good director." It doesn't happen that way. You have to constantly be pulling on somebody's
sleeve saying, "Hey, I want to direct. I want to direct. I want to direct." And you have to be
willing to make sacrifices to do that. The mistake a lot of people, I think, make in Hollywood is
that they think, "Well, I'll get to the top of my field as a whatever, editor, production designer,
writer, and then I'll just move laterally into directing and I'll be more respected and I'll have
more power." It doesn't work that way, because you drop right to the bottom of the pack as a
director."
"Never give up because it's going to be unbelievably hard. It's going to be a ridiculously brutal,
uphill fight all the time, and you just have to have tremendous stamina and self-confidence to
power through it. You have to not listen to the nay sayers because there will be many and often
they'll be much more qualified than you and cause you to sort of doubt yourself. But, you know,
what I learned from those early days was to trust my instincts and to not back off, because
when the hour gets dark, you're instinct is to -- or your tendency might be to say, "Well, this is
just too hard and no, you know, nobody should have to go through this in order to accomplish
X," whether it's a movie or whatever. But to -- in the pursuit of excellence -- if it's how you
define it. You have to go all the way. It's that simple.