there was a day in and mind you, there were many days leading up to this, but i was becoming restless with the idea of heading toward law school, which is what i thought i was going to do. and i found a book called the greatest salesman in the world, or it found me. it was one of those hinge moments where that book found me, i read it, looked up, it was time to go take my exam, i came back home that evening, called mom and dad and said, i d like to switch my career path and go to film production. there that was ten-second pause on the line. i was very nervous were you going to go law school? that s what we were talking about for years. great reaction. i say it, and i ve got a lump in my throat, mom and dad on the other end of the line. they re paying my tuition. so this they ve got a say in this for sure. and i said, mom, dad, i want to go to want to change my core direction, i wanting to to see film school. long beat, long beat.
right. and it hadn t been a career path, when was the moment you thought, okay, maybe? there was a day in and mind you, there were many days leading up to this, but i was becoming restless with the idea of heading toward law school, which is what i thought i was going to do. and i found a book called the greatest salesman in the world, or it found me. it was one of those hinge moments where that book found me, i read it, looked up, it was time to go take my exam, i came back home that evening, called mom and dad and said, i d like to switch my career path and go to film production. there that was ten-second pause on the line. i was very nervous were you going to go law school? that s what we were talking about for years. great reaction. i say it, and i ve got a lump in my throat, mom and dad on the other end of the line. they re paying my tuition. so this they ve got a say in this for sure. and i said, mom, dad, i want to go to want to change my core direction, i wan
to film production. there that was ten-second pause on the line. i was very nervous were you going to go law school? that s what we were talking about for years. great reaction. i say it, and i ve got a lump in my throat, mom and dad on the other end of the line. they re paying my tuition. so this they ve got a say in this for sure. and i said, mom, dad, i want to go to want to change my core direction, i wanting to to see film school. long beat, long beat. my dad goes, is that what you want to do, son? all right, don t half ass it. that was it. and then they became so excited about it. were you relieve ted reaction? oh, i was relieved. and i had their blessing. not only their blessing, things we talked about became a lot more fun. it s a lot more fun to talk about then all of a sudden i m starting to watch movies. then pop s talking about westerns and starting to talk about actors that he liked. and there was i didn t know that we had a creative side of the family.