Well, first of all, making films is a collaborative process. You need people. You need people you trust and love and who are your friends. People you can work with. – Sean Durkin
In editing, its amazing how you choose the in and out points. What you cut on is everything for creating tension. Its amazing how expanding a shot by five seconds can just ruin the tension. – Sean Durkin
What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where its like a coach-player relationship. – Sean Durkin
Sports teams, people who follow sports teams, religion, churches, work – any company, I find that people just generally have a need to belong to something larger than themselves. – Sean Durkin
Trust your gut instinct over spreadsheets. There are too many variables in the real world that you simply cant put into a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets spit out results from your inexact assumptions and give you a false sense of security. In most cases, your heart and gut are still your best guide. – Naveen Jain