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22 S P R I N G 2 0 2 2 I C A S Q U A R T E R L Y Jones will be great. One thing I really enjoyed with Jim is that, not only is he very much into sound and music, but he also likes to pick very different topics for his films. Much like Ridley, he doesn't get stuck and labeled as one type of director. But I think the way he moves from project to project and takes these sometimes very small movies, like Walk the Line, the Johnny Cash story, and draws out the best in the actors [makes him] an incredibly smart director. And it's really fun to work with him! You also did 3:10 to Yuma, which is, in my opinion, one of the best sounding films in the last 20 years or so, and that was Mangold as well, right? That's correct. We got a CAS nomination from it and a Golden Reel. What else do you have coming out that we haven't seen yet? No Time to Die, The King's Man, and The Last Duel came out this year [2021], but all these films that I have been working on over the last year and a half just got put on the shelf. Coming up, I have the two projects for David Bowie I mentioned earlier. Then I'll be working on The Lost City [with Sandra Bullock] over at Paramount, starting in January. Everyone seems to be green lighting films now; I think this is going to be a great year for everyone. I see piling up on top of each other are Indiana Jones 5, which I have coming up, fortunately, and a Whitney Houston biopic that has been in the works for a couple of years. Next year, it looks like everyone's falling over themselves to try and get time with crews and facilities. And I hope it stays that way. You work out of your own stage now? Yes, I had a stage until about a year and a half ago that was a custom stage. We built the stage in Ojai [NW of L.A.] when we bought the house. We just sold that house a year and a half ago, and so all my equipment is in storage. I'm building a new stage in Ventura within a warehouse in an existing building. In fact, we just recently broke ground. With the setup, Dave Giammarco mixes effects in his house, I mix the dialogue and music in my studio, and we send things back-and-forth with each other and make changes accordingly. How long you been working with Dave Giammarco? Thirteen years now. However, I spent a year in England when I took my family back in 2014. Just for a sort of life experience, therefore, we didn't work together that year. Dave's my effects mixer of choice and I love working with him. We have this shorthand which I think is so valuable when you've done a lot of films together. It's a great relationship. What console do you work on? My preferred console is a Harrison MPC5; that's what I own. And I'm doing my best to get used to the Avid S6. Massey driving a Harrison MPC5