Twenty years of
hard projects.

Here's what twenty years in aerospace actually gave me: I know how to keep a hard project from falling apart, and I know that the plan exists to protect the creative, not to replace it.

Passion turbo-charges every skill you have and every one you haven't learned yet. I'd just rather it not also have to cover for a missing schedule. A director should be spending their attention on performance and frame, not on whether the location is confirmed or the day is going to make. That's my job.

So I came at film from the other direction. I learned the craft the slow way — on other people's sets, as gaffer, G&E, swing, sound, AD, script — while bringing the discipline that twenty years of programs where failure wasn't an option tends to beat into you. Both halves matter. Neither one is enough on its own.