We caught up with the brilliant and insightful William Sims a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
William, thanks so much for taking the time to share your insights and lessons with us today. We’re particularly interested in hearing about how you became such a resilient person. Where do you get your resilience from?
My resilience comes from the knowledge that I am pursuing my passions and no matter what pitfalls I encounter. I would rather face a thousand failures doingbsomething I love versus the world to gain but doing something not fulfilling.
Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?
I am a Filmmaker who loves making people laugh. I’m pretty new to the field and I know I have much to learn. But everyday I get to take one step closer to making another movie or short that will entertain. That is my ultimate goal is to entertain through my work. I have a current project in development right now and should be available to watgc within about six months, i won’t rebeal much but it will make your sides split with laughter. Stick with me and at some point or another you will enjoy yourself with at least one of my projects
If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
Most definitely number one is being humble. You won’t learn anything if you have an attitude of someone who lacks humility. Next would be self discipline. I struggle with this alot especially when it feels like ik running in place on projects, but if you stick with it you will see fruits of your labor. Lastly a thirst for knowledge. Books from people who have been there, so too speak, were very important to me. I learned so much about acting, writing and directing through countless books.
Thanks so much for sharing all these insights with us today. Before we go, is there a book that’s played in important role in your development?
Directing Actors by Judith weston
As a director you are a collaborator but I feel that nowadays directing has focused more on the cinematography aspect and totally forgot about the really important part about acting. Judith weston highlights how directing and acting are in the same vein of work. And in order to get a great performance out of the script both director and Cast must be able to be vulnerable with eachother.
Contact Info:
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-sims-b88040235?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=android_app
- Youtube: https://youtube.com/@willfilms7297?si=rSxcIkv3iF0yIIG7
