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A Director’s Journey and Motivational Guide — Pete Chatmon [FULL INTERVIEW]
Film Courage: Pete, the first chapter of your book TRANSITIONS: A Director’s Journey and Motivational Handbook by Pete Chatmon starts with how to quit. What is this and why is that important to start the book?
Pete Chatmon, Director/Podcaster/Author: One of the things that I wanted to keep in mind with the book was that I don’t want to be prescriptive in saying This is the way you have to do it and I also didn’t want to be overwhelming to the reader in a sense of You’ve got to figure out, you’ve got to know what you want to do, every nook and cranny of your career needs to be decided and then just attack it because I know that it can take people various amounts of time to figure out what their voice might, be what their sensibility might be, what their appetite for whatever different position you might seek in the industry requires of you.
I hated that job…
