i am constantly seeing and hearing people ask questions about what they have to do or where they should go in order "make it" in the industry. I want to know what people on this site feel defines "making it". so in your eyes, you will have "made it" when you ________________.

When I can make the films I want to make, and show them to the people who want to see them, and sit in the back of a theater, and know that people like them. Then I've "made it."

For me, that would roughly equate to making good indie movies for intelligent mainstream audiences.

When you have a body of work that you can look back on and be truly proud of. Or when you can finally afford "leather pants and a kangaroo." (Jim Bruer fans anyone?)

so far these responses are better than i innitially thought. for me, it would be making the best movies i can while still making a comfortable living (ie. above poverty line)... i agree with making an indie film for "intellingent mainstream audiences", that is kind of the ideal situation in my eyes.

Once I get the point where I'm doing something that I love and making enough to live comfortably, I will have made it. A bit of recognition would be nice to affirm it, but it's not imperative.

"making it" for me was becoming an editor. Then is was cutting a feature. Now with two features under my best....hmmm... I guess I've "made it". But at the end of the day it's a job. A hard fun job.



-Chris
Studentfilms.com

Selling my original,intelligent and most importantly, creative screenplays for no less then seven figures to production companies, who then turn them into big budget, indie minded films. As well as winning an oscar. Until that is the case,I have not "made it." But then again I have very high standards.

I will have made it in the film industry when I can write an intelligent screenplay that can touch someone in a positive way(make them laugh, cry, or think ) and then direct it with full funding from a studio(which i hopefully will have some control in) and have a firm(hopefully worldwide) distribution deal to reach my intended audiences and if my intended audience is a large number...then have my film gross a figure greater than or equal to my budget so no one loses...and make a nice living...that's basically making it for me and that's not making it in life that's just the film industry

Why the preachy finish, Alex?

Making it... Hmmm. I have actually been thinking a lot about that lately, but I see that I'm not alone. I don't know. It's been bothering me. Sometimes I think that I'm unique. Sometimes I think that I... I don't know. Feel things that other people don't. That I see things that others don't. That I want to make different kind of movies, or do some good in the world, something like that. But, frankly, I just don't know anymore what I want to do, how I'm going to do it, how poor or rich I'll be. I don't know if I'll even ever make a movie that is worth anything to anyone besides myself. There's like this little intangible element of my character, something unanswered in my thoughts, that universal question of "what the hell am I suppose to be doing in my life?". I believe, I have to, that one day that little void will disappear. Something I do, something I make, someone I work with. I don't know what it will be, but when it's gone, then I'll have made it.


Tyler

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Originally posted by titaniumdoughnut:
When I can make the films I want to make, and show them to the people who want to see them, and sit in the back of a theater, and know that people like them. Then I've "made it."

For me, that would roughly equate to making good indie movies for intelligent mainstream audiences.

he pretty much nailed it on the head... i dont even necassarily want to make movies to make money... it would be enough for me to make movies EXACTLY how i want to make them and to have people love my films for that