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Film Courage: Jesse, how did you convince your parents that making a movie was better than going to college?
Jesse Harris, Filmmaker: Well, it took a lot of convincing for sure. I think that my whole life I was just always doing my own thing, making films from an early age and I was never one that I liked learning in a classroom setting. I knew that I was probably going to do it, they probably knew that I was going to do it either way with or without their help and so they could get behind and try to help me with this or I would just be going off and doing it either way. I think they knew I was self-driven and had that in me and that’s just what I thought was best for me to learn how to expand my career.
I had to put together a budget and proposal and explain to them how to do this and that I would hire actual adult filmmakers and it would be an actual learning experience, it would basically be my film school, just a totally different version of it. Once they saw it coming together they realized it was a…
