Yahoo Serious — Australian Director born on July 27, 1953,

Yahoo Serious, born Greg Pead, is an Australian film actor, director and score composer. He is best known for his 1988 comedy Young Einstein. He also created Reckless Kelly in 1993 and Mr. Accident in 2000. Serious writes, directs, produces, stars in, and has composed the scores for his movies... (wikipedia)

There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them.
Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about.
Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else.
Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire.