I don't have the greatest camera. I don't have a real crew or anyone who is willing to devote hours of their time chasing my dream with me. No one will see my work anyway. No one even cares. So again, why bother?

Anyone smell that? Smells like someone stepped into a big, heaping, smelly pile of self loathing and doubt. Everyone check your shoes. Oh, will you look at that — ­­it's me.

It's easy for us to think of thousands of reasons not to be making films. I just listed a plethora of thoughts that race through my head almost every time I decide to pick up my camera or put pen to paper. The hard part is deciding to push through, and to just do it anyway.

When you are a zero budget filmmaker­­ as I'm sure a ton of us are­­, you usually have almost no resources for your film projects. No money, little to no crew, and living in the middle of BFE, makes it pretty easy to feel like you're creating in a vacuum for an audience of one.

The truth is, you very well may be. But I believe that you should be creating as much and as often as possible, despite this fact.

Story time

I once heard a story about American Jazz saxophonist Ike Quebec, and how he supposedly locked himself in his room for weeks, teaching himself how to play sax, and that he refused to come out until, “he could play better than anybody.”