Sometimes my kids make me feel like a studio boss. You see, two summers ago I got the crazy idea to make a short superhero themed movie with them just for fun and they’ve been relentlessly pitching me ideas for more ever since.
Back when I was an age somewhere between the current ages of my two kids, I had decided, without a doubt, that I wanted to make movies when I grew up; a desire that was, of course, fueled by two guys named Lucas and Spielberg. I remember my ambition and excitement to make movies of my own was out of control, but, being the days just before the arrival of personal video cameras, there was no way for a kid my age to do so … or so I thought. Imagine my unbridled joy the day when I learned my parents had bought themselves a Super 8 movie camera and were actually willing to let me use it. It was crude, it was kind of expensive and it had no sound capabilities, but it was something. And then imagine my excitement when I Iearned that using a Super 8 was exactly how Spielberg had gotten his start as a kid.
Unfortunately that excitement quickly reverted back to frustration when I was faced with the harsh reality that filmmaking is, for the most part, a collaborative art and, being the only child of two busy parents, I became quickly frustrated when most of the time I couldn’t find anyone to help me with my creative visions. And this is why, despite the fact that I end up doing 75% of the work and they instill insane, whine-infused deadlines to deliver the finished product to them within a day or two (though luckily they’re pretty easy to please), when my kids beg me to help them make a “movie,” I will always, eventually, find the time to do so. Oh, the irony of life that I went to film school and moved all the way to Los Angeles to end up only, to date anyway, making movies with my kids. Hopefully I'm giving them inspiration and maybe teaching them some skills. I guess at the very least it's fun quality time spent together that they'll remember as we all grow older.
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