Yes, I don’t know if it actually counts as the first time we met but I remember you pitching your documentary on how the film program should be better. And you couldn’t have been more right so naturally that was the project I wanted to work on. We still passed even though all the professors canceled on us last minute.

I think it was the time that we had a plan in place that you were going to direct the senior film and tell what’s his name to fly a kite. The only problem was, you were supposed to keep your mouth shut until I got there and we know how that went down... Long story short, you became the "Producer" on the project then we ended up recutting the whole film ourselves. That might be the first ever “Producer’s cut” to go down in history.

I’ll never forget. You wanted to name the company, “Two Black Ice” or something ridiculous like that. For some reason when you say it fast you thought it sounded like [two - black - guys]. You said, “so when people ask who made that film, people would respond – “two black guys”. That was the day I knew I would handle all of the creative decisions during our partnership.

You were all but dead to me until I had questions about which hard drives I needed to purchase.

My initial thought is, it was a severe case of FOMO. Then I think back and I remember that I had fully intended to stay for four months but there was an incident involving folding a coat and I knew we would make it work. If I quit, we had no other choice.

God, I hope so. This alley is the absolute worst. However, I think we’ve done a great job of maximizing the limited space we have to work with for a city based studio. I’d jump off a bridge before moving to the suburbs though.

The Justin Wine your Mom gifted me the year we started JTWO?

The wine we always said was our Mojo? The secret to our success.

I drank that five years ago. I didn't want to tell you. Kidding - we aren't cracking that bottle open until the day we retire.

I think learning how to manage and navigate a team. When we first started it was just us and we wouldn't sleep for a week until a project was done. I had to learn that not everyone is like that and employees don't necessarily want to sleep at the office.

What was the best decision we've ever made as business partners?

...and the worst?

That's a tough one, but if I had to make a choice I would probably jump back into narrative filmmaking and do an indie film - but not some low budget Little Miss Sunshine - it would be Inception meets John Wick.

Honestly, I've never really been nervous or scared about Directing a project or anything like that. I think the most scared I've been was when we signed the lease for our first office. We could barely pay rent where we lived at the time, but we knew we needed an office if people were going to take us seriously. I think that's the moment it became real to me and I knew we were all in or it was going to end up in flames.

What's your favorite project we've ever worked on?

You trust me an awful lot with our creative choices around here? Has there ever been a time you thought I was crazy or simply went too far?

As Vince McMahon would say, "no chance in hell."

Wait, they didn't already get them? I thought it was in their contracts? But, gut reaction says Omar if we pay him enough money. Then again Conor does owe us a life debt.

Honestly, I'd love to keep going in the direction we are headed. I have never loved our team more and creatively I think we are just beginning to tap into our potential. I love this family and I am excited to see what they can do when we push them to the limit.

"Kyle XY" - he had no belly button and for some reason we thought it was funny. I can honestly say now, we weren't