Robert Rodriguez’s Ten Minute Film School is probably the single best summary of how to get off your ass and get out and make a movie (or do anything creative for that matter). I especially like Rodriguez’s advice on what equipment to buy,
Equipment. OK let’s go over the equipment. The worse the better. You don’t want anything too fancy, remember this is your first movie – you’re not Spielberg yet. I used this one for El Mariachi, almost the same one, I used a 16M this is a 16S, this is exactly what I had. It helped me move fast because it was light, it was very noisy so I could do the sound in a wacky way, but this thing here would cost you about $2000. Don’t spend that kind of money, find some monkey that owns one. I found somone who had one of these sitting around, he wasn’t using it. I borrowed it from him, I shot my movie.