Evan Glodell
Evan Glodell
Evan Glodell is an American feature film director, producer, writer, and actor, who directed the indie film Bellflower on a shoestring budget of $17,000. This feature has received positive reviews of 73% on Rotten Tomatoes, and is critically acclaimed by such critics as Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
CountryUnited States of America
hands techie i-can
I am a mechanical techie. I can build things with my hands.
cool guy life met stuff worked
I went to engineering school, which I thought was what I wanted to do, for about two weeks. We had an orientation class and we met this guy where he worked and stuff and it was cool, but I was like, 'There is no way this is going to be my life.'
long would-be mainstream
If the movies that I'm going to make anyway go mainstream, that would be the coolest thing ever. But I have set up a plan that I've been working on for a long time.
long hobbies different
It was a hobby I got into a long time ago, hacking cameras. I was able to make my own using different lenses.
actors wonder filmmaker
But I always see myself as the filmmaker. I wonder if everybody else sees me more as an actor.
crazy groups film
I developed a group of friends around me that were all as crazy as I was about wanting to make films.
projects my-own
I hope I don't have to act in one of my own projects again.
school wisconsin sixth-grade
I'm from Wisconsin; well, that's where I went to school from, like, sixth grade till I graduated high school.
work-out people wipe
When things aren't working out for people, the end of the world seems like an easy way to wipe the slate clean.
crazy men emotional
Young men are crazy strange emotional beings.
running couple ambition
I don't have any ambitions as an actor. I felt very uncomfortable doing it. The first take every day I'd open my mouth and no words would come out. I'd do a couple of takes and eventually I could run the lines.
fun school actors
I had a friend in high school who badly wanted to make movies and would recruit me as an actor. It was always so much fun. I decided, I'm going to go to Hollywood and make movies, which is a thought I'd never had before.
thinking ideas looks
If I have an idea I want to put in a movie, I know what camera will make that look best, and I have ideas for future projects and stuff I'd like to build for those. I think it's just part of how I work, though.
writing ideas want
I was writing short films and I was going through this really, really, really terrible end of a relationship that I didn't want to be going through. It was too much for me to process and all of a sudden I had this idea for my first feature film and I knew right away I had to start writing it.