Honestly, I never planned to be a director or producer, either. I loved drama class in high school (shout out to Mr. Rickel!), but acting for a living seemed about as impossible as playing in the NFL. I've always loved movies -- which I'm realizing sounds like a banal dating profile statement a la "I'm a foodie" or "travel is my passion" -- but I never actually thought I'd make them myself.

When I was growing up, making movies, books, or comics for a living seemed like an impossible dream. Sure, I dabbled with writing stories, and I even made a short film in high school -- a thinly-veiled rip-off of Clerks called "Carousel," about a depressed and tyrannical amusement operator with a substance abuse problem.* But that didn't feel like a real short film, nor did the stories I wrote feel like real stories. Now, the worst thing you can do as an artist is question the legitimacy of what you're producing, if it even is art, but I wouldn't learn that for a long time.