Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst insists he would be an acclaimed film director if his band hadn't enjoyed so much success and taken up so much time.
Durst is set to direct two upcoming feature-length movies, "Life Without Joe," and "Runt," and says now he was in talks with studios to launch his career as a director before the band became a hit in 2000. "While the band was taking off, I was trying to have meetings with movie people and all Limp Bizkit being successful did was hurt me and get in the way of the movie business."
According to an interview with MTV.com, Durst complained that, "They don't take music people seriously. They'll take you serious if they wanna throw you in a film and let you be an actor and cash in on your success while you're hot, and that's not what I wanted to do."
Durst, who most internet surfers saw in his infamous nookie sex video, also did some acting in the mini-series "Revelations," but says he is dead serious that he believes his directing talents will eventually rank him alongside respected filmmakers. I want to make timeless movies. I want to be beside Martin Scorsese and Wes Anderson and Paul Thomas Anderson and Francis Ford Coppola. I'm a real director."
"So it took years and years of having meetings, going through the wrong people to the right people to get to this point where I am now."
Fred Durst a director? The same screamin' Freddie who writes profound lyrics such as "So go ahead and talk sh*t / Talk sh*t about me / Go ahead and talk sh*t / About my g-g-generation." Yeah, whatever.
Source: mtv.com
