You’ve loved the movies ever since you were a kid, and so you’ve vowed to yourself, “I want to be a Director.” Well then, prepare yourself for the challenge of your life. Directing is viewed in most ways to be the hardest job in show business, and that’s even if you can find work as a director to start with. The initial move to realize the dream of being a director is being a competent amateur in the filmmaking practice. You can begin the learning process by visiting a book shop to buy a few books about film, that give you a clearer picture on what is required in the filming process, highlighting mainly on the principles of a movie like editing, light and sound. However, reading alone would not provide you with every piece of information that you need to know, so you have to undergo 3 different options, each one difficult as it is. You could relocate to Los Angeles (or try to find out if there are gonna be films taken in the place you reside) and either offer your service for free or seek employment as a p.a. or production assistant with a minimum wage in the shoot. This is where many directors get their start, toiling in the trenches as they pick up the information they need to make their own film, and figure out from their ordeals whether or not they really meant it when each one declared “I want to be a director.” If you pull through the trial by fire of serving as whipping boy (or girl) for the ego-fueled personalities of Tinseltown, you can obtain the skills and develop the contacts that will allow you entr?e into the directing world. The second tactic is safer, but does not generate as many successes, and that would be to enroll in film school. The university where you learn about filmmaking will give you more insight on how to ceate a movie that you have observed in typical individual shoots but it only improves what talent you already have. It doesn’t totally prepare you for teh big world of filmmaking, and as an outcome, once you’re done, you still have to do the undesirable job as people in the industry have started before you. The third option, being taken more and more in these days of digital video and online distribution, is by writing your own script, hiring your own crew (or if you’ve got no cash, finding friends to volunteer) and going ahead and shooting  your own film, and though it might sound outrageous, many of the most successful directors in Hollywood got their start just this way, by picking up a camera and just doing it; whatever path sounds best to you may well lead to the fulfillment of that quiet dream you’ve long held: “Director.”