Hiro Murai Quotes
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I like the feeling of keeping people off-balance and having the audience not knowing where I'm coming from or keeping that mysterious.
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At the end of the day, if you don't identify with the main characters, no television show will work.
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Even my nighttime dreams are very, very rooted in reality. They just start to become surreal, little by little.
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That exact moment when you're about to realize that this might be a dream is my favorite thing.
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Too many things are possible in a dream. It's most interesting when you don't know which space you're in.
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A lot of the music video stuff I've worked on is mostly me pitching ideas, and then if [the artists] have notes or thoughts, I'll integrate them into the idea.
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People have a natural tendency to read emotions out of faces, so when you see a face that is hyperreal but without the life behind the eyes, it's really off-putting and intriguing.
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TV is generally an unfriendly environment for directors because you're expected to come in and tell a story in the voice of the show that already exists, and just fill in the blanks and then submit it back.
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If artists do have ideas, they're often not great.
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I'm a fan of the mythos of Atlanta hip-hop, and it's something I grew up imagining. It was very interesting to get there and see the real version of this world and then reconcile the differences between what's presented as Atlanta hip-hop to the rest of the world and what the real, breathing version of it is.
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Obviously the actors are incredible at being the audience surrogates in this crazy universe.
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The way I look at stories is often from far outside, like a god's point of view, and also very, very subjective.
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I like the idea of reading into people's faces when they're not emoting. Some people are fascinated, some are sympathizing.
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Shooting videos with lots of effects is like shooting a bunch of puzzle pieces.
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I love museums, but I always thought there was something funny about a group of strangers silently staring at works of inanimate objects together. Each person is having a very personal and maybe even emotional experience, but it's in the confines of an extremely quiet and sterile room.
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