Guillermo Del Toro on Directing

What are the key pieces of advice that Guillermo del Toro gives beginning directors?  How can this apply to your career?

    Key pieces of advice that Guillermo del Toro gives to beginning directors are the mindset, share your opinions through a piece of work, and to simply just start. His first piece of advice is a simple as changing the way you think from "I want to be a director" to "I am a director," because as soon as you're actually doing something regarding any kind of media, no matter the level, you are still a director. His second piece of advice was to use work as a method of communicating your contempt towards different issues. He illustrated an example of if you dislike the movies that are being made, instead of complaining, you should make a film that exemplifies what you think movies should be like. His last piece of advice ties back to the first, but if you want to become something, simply just start doing it. Whether that be as a director or a writer, although directing does require more resources and collaboration than writing does. This can apply to my career as I could take these pieces of advice to heart and use it to drive my work and motivate myself.