>>3403490>>realise that if you had a "proper" career, you could probably save up enough money to fund a feature film properly after only a few years and hire people to cover for the experience you didn't get from breaking your back on short filmsCountless rich dilettantes have tried to do exactly this after having successful careers in all kinds of fields (mostly finance). They want to live their big producer dreams, and they want it now because they've already waited so long and they need to make up for time they lost being a beta worker bee. End result: they end up dumping all of their cash into shitty B movies that never go anywhere because they lack the requisite passion, knowledge and connections to successfully produce a film. For an example of this, look at Steve Bannon before Brietbart. The industry is cold and people like this are just food for the seasoned Hollywood wolves. Unless you had access to real money (Megan Ellison money) which you could use to buy your way to the top this plan would have ended with you handing out all of the cash you wasted your 20's and 30's earning just so you could return to your old profession with crushed dreams and an empty bank account. Furthermore, you would have struggled in your first career because you would have been doing it just to make cash and get out while the people around you would be happy to be there. This would have been especially painful for you since any job which would leave you with enough savings to self finance a real film would require you to work extremely hard, so you would be stuck pulling 80 hour work weeks in a job you don't even care about. If you truly enjoy film, you made the right choice. There are people who have transitioned into filmmaking from other lucrative careers, but they were mostly doing what they loved until they decided that filmmaking was was now a new passion for them. Very rarely is it someone who loved filmmaking all along but chose to do something else just for the cash.
