Bruce Green feels that this mentorship was the key to his successful career and hopes that all editors and assistants take enough of an interest in someone to mentor him or her. […]
People ask me how I got started in music editing. To be honest, it was a total fluke. […]
I’ve met and worked with people who are fascinating and talented. Movies are in my blood, and it has been a fulfilling, exciting and gratifying experience. […]
My career has been filled with luck and many serendipitous moments that brought me to this space in time. […]
A very summer, my family got invited to the Paramount Studio picnic by my uncle, Al Zuniga. New movie and TV stars would appear; most notably for me were the Cartwrights from Bonanza. Al was Paramount’s trailer editor and his job really intrigued me. […]
By the time I was 25, I was a store manager working long hours with little respect and a low level of creativity. I needed a change. […]
I started editing quarter-inch reels of recorded audio sessions, then got bumped up to an assistant working with film on a Moviola. I was surprised by how much I liked it.
I was fortunate to fall into picture editing. […]
I was on the path of the confused college looking primarily for an interesting career and secondarily for a way to earn a living. My two goals never seemed to want to co-exist. […]
As a member of both the Editors Guild and the American Cinema Editors, I look back on my 50-plus years in the greatest industry on the planet, feeling blessed that I was able to earn a good living in jobs that I loved. […]
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