Building An Oscar-Winning Career...Without Sacrificing Your Values | with Paul Rogers

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Ep236: Building An Oscar-Winning Career...Without Sacrificing Your Values | with Paul Rogers
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My guest today is Paul Rogers who is an award-winning film editor. His work on Everything, Everywhere All At Once recently won him an Oscar. But the epicenter of our conversation today is the speech he gave backstage after the awards:
"There's a problem in our industry that the more you kill yourself for a movie, the braver you are and that's bullsh*t. We can do our jobs and we can live our lives and the more fully we are able to live our lives and the more humanely we treat ourselves and the people around us the better we can do our jobs."
If you’ve been a long time listener to my podcast, no doubt that you’ll recognize this as something that I’ve been advocating for years already. What’s interesting is that Paul did not plan on saying this in his speech, but instead, it came out of nowhere while trying to refocus from all the awards commotion. My intuition tells me that it’s deeply connected to his values as a film editor, as a human being and how he defines work-life balance.
In this conversation, we talk about boundaries, what type of projects he would do and why, and how winning an Oscar has changed his life.
[CHAPTERS]
00:02:22 | Paul's quote after the awards that went totally viral
00:09:23 | Paul's origin story
00:15:09 | Bridging the gap between "I want to do that" and "Let's do it"
00:19:00 | The project Paul made that made him realize he wanted to do more meaningful work
00:30:57 | The need for diverse voices
00:34:43 | What if you didn't have the safety nets and you needed the paycheck?
00:36:56 | What awards really are
00:48:32 | Competition in the workplace?
00:55:04 | How to cultivate your gut feeling
01:07:53 | Creativity vs technology
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