The truth is, I don’t know where I’m headed. I don’t really have big goals or like somewhere I want to be in 5 years. I’m still awestruck at the fact people pay me to do what I do. Shoot photos, films, assist photographers. I haven’t really gotten over that yet. I’m just going to keep shooting and working as hard as I can in hopes that my phone keeps ringing with jobs. I live my life in a weird way maybe. Different from others probably. Many people say “I want to do this in two years, or I hope I’m here in 5 years.” When people ask me that I just respond “Well I just hope I’m not working at Pizza Hutt.” A director I was working for the other day asked me if I wanted to keep DPing projects and I said “I don’t really know. If my phone keeps ringing about gigs like that I’ll keep answering it. Until then that’s all I know.” Working hard and trying not to get lost in the heat of it all. Really I don’t think I’m lost, it’s just I don’t exactly know where I’m headed.

Matt Shouse