The best way to get started is to direct. For some people this is a freeing thought: just get out there and do it! For others it's debilitating.

You and only you are going to have to choose the path that works best.

Here's MY suggestion. Find someone with a video camera - it doesn't have to be top of the line. Find a script - I suggest starting with One Act plays: they usually have few actors and only one setting. I suggest Albee's The Zoo Story - but there are thousands to choose from; ask at your library.

Find actors your age and skill level. If your school has a drama department there will be plenty of wannabe actors there.

Read the play with the actors and your camera person. As they read it think of shots you?d like to see: what?s important at each moment.

Then shoot it. I suggest Zoo Story because it takes place outside - you can shoot on the weekend in a local park.

You will learn more by doing this than you would reading 20 books and taking 20 classes.

Do that once a month - a different play each time - for six months. During that six months people will see you're serious and more and more people will want to help.

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The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.
Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824)

cheers for the advice ?:)?

I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me, A day may come, when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of Fellowship, but it is not this day. This day we fight!

Aragorn, Return of the king