Dan Farah

So at the time, I was working at the local pizzeria working the counters like things like probably freshman year in high school.

The cops came in and they'd always eat really cheap.

The role was the owner would let us charge cops 10 bucks no matter what they ate.

They could get $30 worth of food, 10 bucks.

And so they liked us.

And I remember I asked Officer Tim Durkin, shout out to Officer Tim Durkin.

I remember asking him, I said, hey, will you participate in this police chase in my short film?

And the guy did it.

He did it.

And I sped up the film.

You can speed up film, right?

So he was going fast, but I made him look like he was going really fast.

And he's peeling around corners in our little suburban Jersey neighborhood.

That's hilarious.

Absolutely hilarious.

And he got really into it.

camera movement at the end where like at the end like when the when the two thieves get away he like slams on his brake hops out of his car and like the camera like moves around the door like and he just looks like a badass and he loved it and he had a great time and um when i go home for the holidays to my little jersey town i often bump into him at the local bar and he always brings it up he's like man that was awesome

So I had all these, I like, I tried to add like production value to all the things I did as a kid when I was making these short films and try to make it, you know, I kept viewing each one as a challenge.

Like I would get a police car chase or I'd get like the local EMTs, the ambulances to like, you know, show up in a scene and like, but I was very inspired by Spielberg to do all that.

Like reading about him, the fact that he did that as a kid is what made me want to do it as a kid.