“I think you have to be very reactive to the designer, yet you need to be politically adept. You have to make sure the designer feels like they’re being taken care of while at the same time, making sure the general manager and producer knows you’re watching every dollar…. [Also], I think you have to really know the entire job. I remember taking consoles home and brushing up constantly because if I gave somebody a project to do, I wanted to really know how long it would take them to do the job. When working on a budget and creating the schedule for number of man hours needed, you need to know which jobs are going to take how long and how many people it will take to get that job done.”
Jimmy Fedigan, chatting with Michael S. Eddy, PLSN, Sept. 2021, page 27
