Growing up, I wanted to be a filmmaker—I made cheesy films on my parents’ video camera; I subscribed to filmmaking magazines; I watched as many movies as possible. What I didn’t count on was that I liked watching films a heck of a lot more than making them. Over the years, I’ve been able to make a few films, and there are parts of it I like: quite honestly, if I weren’t a professor, my dream job would be film editing. But, filmmaking was never as fun as I’d hoped it would