...I always had in mind you planned to develop your camera skills...
Yes, I tried in the past, starting by assisting and because of my contacts in the art milieu I had the chance to work with a few big names and learn directly from the bests, but I totally lacked passion.
I realised that one can not become good in something if he's not driven by truth passion.
Accidentaly, I started to editing and the "bang" effect ocurred, went back to one of my first love, as when I was Young in Paris I was in // to fine arts in a cine school where I started to learn the task and always liked much much better motion imagery than stills;
and as son as I started to cut, I felt naturally "at home" and had the passion I was lacking when I was trying to learn to shoot well.
In fact, in my assistance period, I was living the glamour life, surrounded by top models, sophisticated life style, but I was "dead-alive", very superficial and not really driven by the need to express myself.
It was a sort of parenthesis where I learned more on myself, on life and psychology than imagery itself.
Beleive me, if there is not passion, it's not worth. Some people are good producers and not that much good musicians. Very few like Prince can have both. The important thing IMO is being aware where are ones strengh and wicknesses and surround one self by the correct people, the ones that are better where we're not.
You see, Thelma Schoonmaker is hired to do one task in wich she excells, she doesn't touch a color App or a camera. This is possible in the very high-end, generally most of the people are obliged to do many things for budgets reasons and it's always a compromise. But we can not be everywhere and being good at everything.
Specially, I think that the photographers are more reluctants to delegate even if they can because they are used to control almost everything in teams that are reduced. In motion imagery, things get more complicated.
Cheers.