Artist's Statement
My motivation? Our future. When I was younger the first movie i can remember watching was Kung Fu Hustle. It gave me my first sense of a comical yet emotionally provocative narrative and was my original inspiration for wanting to do something with english (screenwriting) or film itself. Deep within me has always sat the desire to produce a work of art that rivals those of my favorite directors such as Wes Anderson. Tarantino, and Stephen Chow. This desire, however, was only the beginning of my eventual realization that what I truly wanted was to be able to create something that could inspire people and spark that same sort of aspiration of my youth to ignite passion in the hearts and minds of those who witnessed my work. I wanted people to be proud of me and to have me and my work as something to look up to in the future. For years these dreams of mine sat dormant in my heart, suppressed by the idea that it wouldn't be "real" work and I'd need to pursue some...