When I was fairly young, I watched a bunch of Law & Order, and really wanted to be a state prosecutor. Before that, I had wanted to be, at various times: a bull rider, a country and western star, a professional baseball player, and a NASCAR driver.
Though, around the age of 12, I started taking an intense interest in movies. Got my first camera for my 13th birthday, and have wanted to be a filmmaker ever since then. I worked my ass off in high school and ended up directing three plays, writing and directing 12 short films, and completing one feature-length film before graduating. I am 18-years-old now, and made the admittedly risky decision of staying away from college and film school, and really doing something useful with the next four years of my life. Yet, that payed off about two months after graduating when I was commissioned to make a feature-length documentary over the course of 2010 which will be hitting the film festival circuit in early 2011.
So, I am definitely living my dream so far. All I want to do is make a living off of making films, and be able to entertain some people. I'm going to be making a relatively large amount of money for my age making a movie, and that money will allow me to find the time to secure financing for the other projects I am working on. I don't think I could really ask for anything better.