Sia embarrassed by filmmaking ambitions

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Press Trust of India Los Angeles
Last Updated : Sep 08 2015 | 1:42 PM IST
Pop star Sia says she was afraid to share her aspiration to make a film.
The 39-year-old "Elastic Heart" hitmaker has started working on her directional debut called "Sister". She said she was embarrassed to tell people about her ambitions for film because she didn't want people thinking it was a vanity project for her, reported Billboard magazine.
"I was too embarrassed to tell anyone I wanted to make a movie because I thought it would be seen as a vanity project, because I was a singer. And then last year after I made the Chandelier video, I realised that I was pretty good at directing, so I felt a little bit braver," Sia said.
However, the Australian star revealed she is "not a technical person" and couldn't be "bothered" to learn movie editing software, which she compared to the production involved in making music in a studio.
"For me, the process was basically, I work out the movie. I'll act it out, I'll have the dialogue already in my head. It's really the formatting... I can't be bothered to learn Final Draft. I'm not a technical person.
"Like, when I sing, I just want to sing the melody and write the lyrics. I don't want to have to do production, which is very technical. I don't enjoy that. What I do enjoy is the creative process," Sia said.
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First Published: Sep 08 2015 | 1:42 PM IST

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