Obsession

I became obsessed with working in the entertainment industry in college. I used to be obsessed with being famous but the more I thought it about it, the more I realized that I didn’t want to be famous, I wanted to be noticed. We all want to be noticed for what we do that makes us stand out from everyone else. If all we wanted was to be famous, we’d go shoot up a local gas station to get our fifteen minutes.

When I was developing my strategy for my career in Hollywood, I never thought I would care about an Oscar. I always wanted to write and make comedy movies, but after the desire for money and laughs go away, you’re stuck with wanting more. I wanted to get noticed not just by people with a need to laugh, but by people that knew movies and knew great movies.

Friend and I were not surprised when we got our first Oscar nomination. It didn’t sneak up on us when we weren’t expecting it. We made the movie with the intention of winning an Oscar. No, we didn’t make a strong themed movie like Brokeback Mountain in the hopes of just being different. We made a movie that was real. We made a movie that was so real that it could have passed for a diary of my life.

It was the easiest movie I had ever written because I no longer had to guess what a character felt or what type of music he liked to listen to. I simply looked back at the notes that I had jotted down when going through the worst time of my life and constructed them into a visual story. At the time I was going through it, I never thought that I would actually appreciate the hell that I had to go through. But at the end of the day, I realized that it made me strong and it solidified my career in the entertainment industry.

If you want to turn your struggle into a movie, please send ten thousand dollars to Studio X along with your struggle. We’ll get back to you.

LD