My Aunt sent me a newspaper review by Saul Austerlitz of a book called, My First Movie: Take Two, edited by Stephen Lowenstein. It’s the sequel to his first My First Movie book. In both books, he compiles interviews of different film directors with different backgrounds and asks them to describe their beginnings in the film industry. They all discuss the process of making their first films, as the title suggests. Here are some quotes from the book and the review which she underlined for me to read:

“The process of making a movie is universally acknowledged to be roughly equivalent on the pain scale with childbirth, with directors tasked with the burden of not only giving birth to but also molding and forming their offspring.”

 ”It’s terrible, making movies. You feel completely lost. But there’s also something intoxicating about being lost. I think it’s a way of making a disturbance in your senses, creating chaos in your head so that something will be born out of it.”

“If you’re ever going to get a film made, you have to be almost a hustler/criminal type of person.”

My Aunt kindly added , “I’m not sure sure about the childbirth analogy, but we get the picture!!
At any rate, I think you’ll enjoy reading about others in your field-and knowing you’re not alone out there!
Good luck with your studies and of course ‘giving birth’ to movies!”

Support from your family is one of the nicest things you can have.
I am grateful for the support of both my family and my friends. 
But today my Thank You is especially towards my family.
Here are two pictures you might enjoy, one from the south of BC close to the US border,
and one from the North of BC in Whistler from my travels.

(Note: This restaurant is not affliated with my family in anyway; there is only a 6 letter similarity to my last name. I have never eaten here, however I have done shopping at their stores. Affordable Canadian pricing. Anyway, it’s a fun sign to me.)

With the support of friends and family, you can climb any mountain!!

-Both pictures taken on 35mm Nikon Film camera by myself.