Danny Jones

First of all, I always wanted to make movies when I was a little kid.

I was telling Jamie this story earlier.

I was going to go to Full Sail where Jamie went in Florida, in Orlando, but I didn't have the money to do it.

And I couldn't get into UCF because my grades were shit in high school.

So luckily, I got the opportunity to work on this movie called Dolphin Tale.

It was a movie about a dolphin who got its tail stuck in a crab trap and Morgan Freeman came in and built a prosthetic tail and it was swimming around in the aquarium.

Kerry Connick Jr.

and Morgan Freeman were in it and it was like a big Warner Brothers movie.

And I realized working as a camera production assistant on that movie –

It was my film school, but I realized I did not want anything to do with making movies because it was the closest thing I ever experienced to work in construction.

It was like I was in charge of swapping the camera lenses, the camera batteries, taking the SD cards back to the media truck, getting everybody breakfast and coffee.

And these dudes, these camera department dudes, a lot of them are really cool.

Like the dude Pete Zuccarini, who was the underwater cinematographer who filmed all the Pirates of the Caribbean movies.

He was fucking awesome.

But a lot of the other guys were like really unhappy, like deeply unhappy because they

They never saw their families.

They were always on the road.

A lot of them on their like third, fourth wives.

FaceTiming their kids.

And it was like, you know, there were like carnies with dental plans.