04/01/2021
What life is like as a filmmaker (well, for me anyway):
1. You don't have working hours. You work 24/7/365 unless you specifically set time aside for other things.
2. You never have extra money, anything above essentials go back into projects/upskilling - no room for luxuries. Anyway, who needs luxuries if you can make great films.
3. You have no social life, your social life is at production meetings, on set, or at wrap parties.
4. When watching movies you half-subconsciously calculate the budget as the movies runs, and have a rough budget estimate of the film when you have finished watching... then googles to see if you were right.
5. When watching movies, you wonder about things in the film like permits, permissions, crewing, safety, actor negotiations, etc.
6. You go about your daily life automatically identifying things you see as possible future locations/props/actors/ etc.
7. You avoid spending time or talking to non-industry people... because they just don't get it, any aspect of it or you. (Only filmmakers will really understand what I mean).
8. Everything interesting in life becomes an "I should make a movie about that".
9. The industry is different every 5 minutes, and you have to educate yourself on the workings of it on a daily basis. By the time you finish a project, life has changed since you started it - so you have to keep adapting and adjusting your plans to get the best outcomes.
3. What is Xmas? What is New Years? What is sleep? What is routine?
4. You are a master in adapting, resilience, rejection, patience, disappointment...
.. and you wouldn't have it any other way...
