No One Believes You Are Going To Be A Filmmaker by Adam William Ward
Film Courage: What are some things that you learned in the last five years that you wished you knew in the first five years since you moved here?
Adam William Ward, Actor/Producer/Director: Some of it plays into things I’ve already said but Number 1 is “Bank in yourself.” If you really believe in yourself you have to bank in yourself. And what that means is you can’t depend on an external person to make your dreams happen. If you want to make them happen, you go make them happen with yourself.
Now some actors are very much independent of a studio or a filmmaker if you’re not a filmmaker yourself. But even an actor in a way you could find the right director. You could find money people. You could then produce and put a whole project together. But it’s the bank in yourself. It’s to start learning and figure out what you need to do and do it. Do it yourself.
WALLY GOT WASTED we did completely outside of the studio system and it would have never got made if I was…I’d still be scratching my head handing in the script to people and even though people loved the script I’d still be handing it to people and even the…
