Meet Ethan Jones

We recently connected with Ethan Jones and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, so we’re so thrilled to have Ethan with us today – welcome and maybe we can jump right into it with a question about one of your qualities that we most admire. How did you develop your work ethic? Where do you think you get it from?

I get that from starting work at a young age. I started working part time at the age of 16 years old in order to make some extra cash while still in High School. Starting at a young age, you learn the value of investing your time into an endeavor and seeing it pay off over time. Fast forward to today, I don’t see what I do as necessarily “work” as I’m lucky enough to do what I love for a living, so I’m able to devote long hours to my craft without getting burnt out from it.

Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?

I’m an actor and film editor who has been working in the business for over 10 years now. I started my career as an editor but over time it became clear to me and from the advice I was getting from other people, that acting was something I should pursue as well, so I currently do both in a professional capacity and often fill both roles on the projects I work on.

Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?

Being resilient is probably the most important quality in anyone going after a creative career, you’re going to have failures along the way and you’re going to get knocked down, but that’s just apart of the experience. You have to develop that early on and be willing to say you’re going to go after what you want no matter what.

Secondly I’d say is being easy to work with and be willing to learn at all times, the technology and how we go about doing things in film and any creative industry is constantly evolving and we’re all learning all the time, being willing to always learn and have the attitude of a student while being nice is so important.

Thirdly, I’d say building up your network of people you genuinely like working with so over time they can become recurring collaborators. Right now I have about 5 people I’m very close with in the industry who offer me work but we’ve also developed friendships because we met through work. This also results in the work being better every time you do something new with your collaborators because you’re a aware of how they work already, things move faster, and the work is better because of it.

Any advice for folks feeling overwhelmed?

When I feel overwhelmed I make sure to constantly communicate who I’m working with and make sure my day is scheduled appropriately. I recently worked on a feature film and a high budget short at the same time and it was just about doing the work each day and constantly communicating with my collaborators. Communication is key.

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