Filmmaking advice writ large: Tarantino's advice at ComicCon applies to all creative endeavor
I love these kinds of questions posed towards filmmakers and media creators of all kinds. Like Ira Glass on creativity.
Great auteurs answer these questions about specific industries but they're broadly applicable to everything, including my favorite topic, creating Internet startups.
There's a certain auteur aspect to it that translates precisely. It's a business, no doubt about it. But you have to appeal to people, even change people's lives -- the way they think and act. You have to understand and communicate visually, spatially and emotionally with your audience.
There's a technical element, substitute filmmaking and editing and cinematography for software engineering, scaling, and tech architecture / ops.
How you start is the same. You create. You create until your fingers bleed, and then you create some more. Iterate and don't worry about creating crap, because at the end of it, you'll have made a movie. Or a site. Or a story. Whatever it is.
The final part spoke to me the most. Yes, it's harder than ever to become a filmmaker or an Internet entrepreneur, or an author-- a creator of any kind. There is so much competition. But that competition sucks so fucking bad, that it will be plain as day when you've created something good.
It can be done. Today. Now. Go.
