Vin Diesel used student credit card to finance his dreams

Los Angeles April 4 (IANS) Actor Vin Diesel has revealed he used a student credit card to finance his first films script.

The 49-year-old who is now among the A-list stars of Hollywood says at the beginning of his career he desperately needed finance to give shape to his ideas.

To write my first script I went to an early electronics store called the Wiz that was on 14th Street (in New York). They had a policy where you could return anything within 30 days no questions asked Diesel told nytimes.com.

So I went to the Wiz and bought this $600 word processor on my student credit card. I stayed up all night every night. And at the end of the 30 days I returned it.

Then I went out and rented a 16-mm camera on a Friday because I didn t have to return it until Monday so I was able to shoot for three days. Cut to my mom watching me roll an old 16 mm Steenbeck into my little room. I was cutting and splicing Multi-Facial old-school style. This was before computers really he added.

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