The editing process was a free-for-all, and since I hadn't gone to film [Dream of Life] school or anything like that, I just said, "We'll do this. We'll do that." It was a really great experience that way.
Many of my family members are teachers in the arts, and I picked up the camera years ago, in high school.
I didn't do well in high school, but I took photography, and I loved being able to capture moments.
Angelo Corrao was our editor [in Dream of Life], and he was just so diligent and so old-school in the way he looked at editing. He would take my far-out ideas and tame them and make sense of them.
I never went to film school, so I just sort of learned on my own.