10 year plans

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You've all been saying that your ten year plans are to have a feature film, be famous etc but have any of you got to the stage now where you just dont think its going to happen and while you still want to dream, you are just accepting that you might not make it. i've got to the stage now where im being realistic and about to stop dreaming. think its time to read rebel without a crew.

mbankhead - my solution is that I've given myself 'till the end of the year to make my breakthrough film. If nobody wants it then I guess I'm not cut out for it, and will have to OD on the old sleeping pills...or maybe paracetamol. By the way, I take it both methods are completely painless????

Oh what, you think I'm joking?

Its amazing how commited you can become to a project when your life depends on it, literally..................

In ten years, in five years, in three years whatever. Im not thinking in terms of years. I can only really see as far as the next project I want to work on. My that is shortsighted thinking, but I have tried and tried to plan and you know what life is always going to take you somewhere you didnt plan on. Plus the question is what are we aspiring to achieve Mbankhead. Now while I do see what you mean you arguement does not apply here. The reason being that every person here maybe in preproduction on some project or another. They hope to achieve a goal. The completion of a film. Determination is a great thing and can take you a great distance, but that isnt all there is to it. To attack them for dreaming is wrong because every idea you or anyone else has ever had needed to be fleshed out first. That is part of the process. That is part of doing. Granted at some point they need to take the next step. The right time for that is up to them. Not you or I. Also, while I may be attacked for this, Rebel Without a Crew is a interesting read and very motivational. However it isnt the bible. There was a great deal of luck involved in his story. That and I have yet to be impressed with anything he has done. Its entertaining but I havent been impressed. I guess I am just wondering when Rodriguez achieved the second messiah status.

I did not attack anyone for dreaming, i simply asked if anyone has had the same thoughts. I know what it is like to dream, and still do but sometimes you just cant find the motivation.

as for rebel without a crew, as far as filmmaking it is not a bible. you could probably learn more about filmmaking from other books. but it is good for inspiration. it is good for motivation and its good for reading about one man who is taking on hollywood on his own.

miker.... myself fast approaching 30 I took heart recently in the realisation that one of my favorite artists, Casper David Friedrich, produced some of his most profound and beautiful works in a period from his 40's to his 50's.

Life begins at 30... it doesn't end. Sure some of the greats got breaks early in life and there's also alot of profound vision in the youthful. But I've always thought that before you say anything you should have something worth hearing. It's really only as one approaches 30 and further on that one starts to move out of the heady fantasies of youth and gains a greater feel for life in its shapes and forms. The two dimensional `heady` 20's, born out of the idealistic teens, start to melt into a warmer and deeper understanding. This, IMO, is the fount from which great films come.

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Well I'm 19 and I've got a bright future. I'll need some luck along the way, but I will make it. I really beleive that. I will have a film in the cinema and I will achieve recognition...Over the next couple of years my aim is to keep improving and hopefully rack up a few more awards...Once I've got a certain amount of expeirience i'm gonna leave for America...My favourite feeling in the world is proving people wrong, it's just so sweet. The future is bright. The future is Generic.

I'm not aiming that high. I just want to be paid to work in the film industry.

Obviously I'd like to have directed a couple of successful films, got some recognition and a decent pay packet but as long as I'm not working 9-5 in an office and I'm enjoying it I'm happy.

Generic, thats a great attitude to have!

Most filmmakers never think they'll get anywhere. They're too negative.

In order to succeed you have to be optimistic about the future.

I would say this:

Many directors who then go to direct for big studios may only make one film for "bigger budget' companies but it is a really good film and at that point they could be as old as 50, as long as you can make films (hopefully make a living out of it) you should be happy cause this is what you love to do. If you are just here waiting for some big time studio to come along and tell you to direct then you are in the wrong business.
Thats what Susan Surrandon told me (but thats a long story)