I’ve learned a lot from people who don’t shower. Things about about filmmaking—and myself—that were far from expected when I set out to...

It’s tedious! Try counting cuts—each time the shot changes in a movie, TV ad, music video, etc., a decision was made, a shot was looked for, an edit point was perfected. Preparing to make the best choice is the uphill part of the process. Think of it as finding and grouping all the corner, edge, and like-color pieces of a puzzle before putting it together. The Biggest Factor I met Michael McKean while screening the first documentary feature I edited. We were briefly left alon