hi, i'm 16 and this will sound stupid but i feel i'm to old to start. there is people on this board who began when they were 13, won't they be better than me? i know its stupid, but how can i stop thinking like this.

to old to start ,I just started im 29,ive always carried a camera with me back in the day but that was to film ala jackass stunts me and my freinds did.your never too old 16 is great by the time your my age youll have 14 years on you.NICE

I dont think so and i'm also 16 and just started but I think people our age have years to learn about filmmaking and we're not really old..yet

Hey, I started when I was 13, forgot about it, and started again for real at 15. I'm 18 now, and there are dozens of things I wish I had started at 16! Its NEVER too late! Don't worry!

As that guy in Galaxy Quest said "Never give up! Never surrender"

Oh, and the people who start at 13 make total crap for the first few years... so if you can somehow skip that step, you won't have lost any time

Ya, I just started at the begginning of the year and I'm 16.

I just want to second TD's comment, most of those kids' films do suck. On the other hand, most people's first films suck. If you're worried about the fact that other sixteen year olds out there are going to have better films than the ones you make now, stop it. You can always revel in the fact that by the time you're nineteen your films will be cooler than the films I made at nineteen.

elliott.

When I saw the topic title I thought it was going to be a question from a 35 year old asking if it was too late to start working on films...

But you're 16! You got the world in front of you. At 16 everything is just starting to begin - might as well begin filming stuff too.

Good luck!

-Chris
Studentfilms.com

Too old? State of mind. I started at 43. I was told by a director that my first 10-12 films would suck and just realize it and learn from it.

Of course, I now know that none of them suck!

Yes - it's never too old to start.

-Chris
Studentfilms.com

I started at 14, i'm 17 now, and I've only completed one film, which sucks. S don't worry, at 16 your mind is mature enough to not make the careless and stupid mistake that most kids do when they first start out.