Posted by Alferd Packer at a010-1025.rlgh.splitrock.net on February 24, 2001 at 23:25:28:
In Reply to: I need help from my idol K.S. Please help!!! posted by PHREAK on February 24, 2001 at 17:08:25:
...is to wait three years, go to college, make some shorts, then start trying to make a feature-length movie.
Nobody is going to take a 15 year-old seriously. Or a 16 year-old. Or a 17 year-old. It's doubtful you'd be taken seriously as an 18 or 19 year-old.
I'm not discouraging your dream, but I'm injecting some reality. Use your teen years to soak up everything you can about filmmaking. Usually, the best way to learn something is to do it, but since you're so young, I'd say you just sit tight and read, watch, do whatever you can.
I actually tried to make a movie when I was 15. I got nowhere, nobody wanted to invest in a kid.
And without sounding like an asshole, you're too young to know what you're doing. You're too young to write a script everyone is gonna want to read and people will take seriously. I was the same way. Stuff I wrote when I was 15 (hell, stuff I wrote six months) still makes me cringe. Stuff I wrote last WEEK makes me cringe.
Use your time to mature and learn. That's my advice.
But by all means, when you graduate high school, start your mission.