"Please stop yelling at me." - The Director

Does the director really yell at me? Yes.
Is it all in good fun? Yes.

The Director - Nick Reiber

Nick Reiber and I have been friends for about 7 years now, and making movies together for just as long. The first two movies we worked together on were never finished, but the third was a success - something we still love and talk about today. All of our initial collaborations together found him as the director/writer, and myself as the actor, but as time went on and we worked together more often, the balance began to find a slight shift. To this day, I still have not directed my own project (yet, I say I am a director - sweet, painful, bitter irony), but for Nick's movies I have become more than just the actor. We are good friends now, and we both love movies, so we're often discussing plots and characters, and always talking about our next project. He still has his own movie ideas, and I have mine - but as friends we're always discussing things and getting the other's opinions. With Get Back, we've reached an even more mature level of movie making.

For the first time in our long and un-illustrious movie making careers, we have taken definite roles. Get Back was Nick's story, but I wrote the script. We have found a cinematographer, and both Nick and I are producing this movie together, but once we're into production I will be solely the actor - and he will finally be able to just direct. But, I hear the audience say, is he any good?

Many times, I have told Nick, "You've got the mentality of a great director - I've just never seen it in your movies." Now, that sounds like a jab, but it's not. I know he's good, but for all of our previous projects, there have always been other distractions or hindrances - truthfully, though, that's just how learning goes. I'm not speaking from a pedestal, because there is video evidence of myself being a less than amazing actor in the past. As with my own learning process, however, I have seen Nick grow a lot over the years, and that's not a weight joke (haha, sorry Nick, I couldn't resist). In all seriousness, though, for the first time I think we're all going to get to see what this guy can really do with a movie, and I really can't wait to see what that is - as his actor and as his friend.