Ryan McFaul
Overview
 
Ryan McFaul is an award-winning director
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

, editor
Film editing
Film editing is part of the creative post-production process of filmmaking. It involves the selection and combining of shots into sequences, and ultimately creating a finished motion picture. It is an art of storytelling...

, and visual effects
Visual effects
Visual effects are the various processes by which imagery is created and/or manipulated outside the context of a live action shoot. Visual effects involve the integration of live-action footage and generated imagery to create environments which look realistic, but would be dangerous, costly, or...

 specialist living in Brooklyn, New York.
McFaul began creating short films while growing up in suburban Maine
Maine
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. He and his friends called their production company Pig Pat Productions, named after a stuffed animal mascot.

McFaul attended New York University
New York University
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's Tisch School of the Arts
Tisch School of the Arts
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, where he studied Film and Television Production and graduated in 1996 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts
Bachelor of Fine Arts
In the United States and Canada, the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, usually abbreviated BFA, is the standard undergraduate degree for students seeking a professional education in the visual or performing arts. In some countries such a degree is called a Bachelor of Creative Arts or BCA...

 degree.
McFaul began his career as a commercial editor, and in 2003 transitioned into directing.
Quotations

[reading a sign from dumpster] "Warning! Do not play in or around dumpster. Do not kick dumpster. Do not sleep in dumpster. Usage of this container for the disposal of human remains, may be in violation of local health ordinances."

[looking at the boxes] Empty boxes. They really should be flattend, so they can be recycled.

[looking for his keys] Some joker took my keys. I don't like that.

[looking at his bike] Good thing Ripburger didn't touch my bike. Good thing for him.

[knocking on the door of the Kickstand] Open up!

When I'm on the road, I'm indestructible. No one can stop me... but they try.

[trying to open Todd Newlan's trailer door]: Knock knock.. Open up Todd!

[looking at Todd's basement window from outside]: Either someone's doing some welding down there, or we're talking about some very sub-code wiring.

 
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