How Did You Approach Making Film?

"I was just trying to write to get my foot in the door and actually sort of pay the bills, get healthcare or something," he says. "It's a very competitive business. The best way to become a movie maker is to make sure you get really good grades ... which is a complete fallacy I've since learned" He first encountered avant garde film with Stan Brackage and Hollis Frampton while working at Harvard. After moving to Los Angeles for work on his next project, 'Whiplash,' he went back to writing horror films as part of an acting apprenticeship.