"When I thought of a film director, I pictured, you know, Spielberg.
At 28, she finally enrolled in film school at New York University with the support of her family and her partner at the time.
"Those three years of film school were the best years of my life," she says.
While she was in school, Terruso "said yes to everything."
She worked on films for as little as $100 a day doing whatever they needed, wanting to soak up as much experience as she could.
Persons:
Laura Terruso, she'd, –, Spielberg, Robert De Niro, Sebastian Maniscalco, Terruso
Organizations:
CNBC, Getty, New York University
Locations:
Dyker, Brooklyn