Durst: 'Limp Bizkit Halted My Directing Career'

Durst: 'Limp Bizkit Halted My Directing Career'

Singer Fred Durst insists he would be an acclaimed film director if his band
Limp Bizkit hadn't enjoyed so much success.

Durst is set to direct two upcoming feature-length movies -- "Life without
Joe" and "Runt" -- but he was already in talks with studios before Limp
Bizkit were catapulted onto the international stage in 2000.

And now that he is free to concentrate on working behind the camera, Durst
is adamant his talent will soon rank him alongside the most respected
filmmakers in Hollywood history.

He says, "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.

"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.

"I was offered all kinds of cheesy movies that were really successful to
direct and I was like, 'I'm not here to make movies like that.' 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."

JennP...

Seriously. He's delusional.