I am a Filmmaker.

The first step to success is believing that who you want to be is who you really are. It still throws me a little bit when I say I'm a filmmaker...but I know it's true.

I make films.

Not: "I made some films".

I make films.

Now, I have yet to make a feature film. No one at Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox, Paramount, or Universal even know who I am. Be that as it may, I am a filmmaker.

Since I graduated in 1999, I've made 4 short films. That's right, I've made 4 short films in almost 10 years. Before that, since 1988 I made something like 20 short films. The main reason for this is that my work is becoming more and more professional. I no longer am satisfied to just grab a camera and start filming a few of my friends ad-lib their way through a loose concept.

Now-a-days I actually write scripts.

Good material is hard to come by. So in essence, I've turned to quality over quantity.

I'm on the verge of a new adventure, one I've had my eye on for 20 years. I'm a few short pages from finishing my first feature script. it will be on to new challenges of financing and producing a film...for money. The first time I will get paid to make a movie. And probably the most comforting thing about the whole prospect is...I have no doubt it will happen.

That's how I know I am a filmmaker...

I make films.

-D