Hiro Murai
Quotes by Hiro Murai
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When we were making 'Teddy Perkins,' we were playing with a lot of horror tropes and things you might've seen in movies before, but we get the ability to subvert expectations or get a comedic element out of a horror moment.
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'Twin Peaks' was my gateway for David Lynch.
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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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I really enjoy blocking and staging. I think most of visual storytelling is camera placement and how to stage action around the camera.
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Directing action scenes is really just pure visual storytelling that just makes sense to me pretty intuitively.
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I'll listen to a song so much that ideas start to form out of daydreaming. It's as if I'm reverse-scoring the track and building visuals around a specific beat or riff that's grabbed me.
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The weird thing about having an alligator on set is that you can't be in the direct line of sight, or they might start charging at you.
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A lot of weird things happen in life that are not always pertaining to your main objective.
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Once you go outside of Atlanta, there are still a lot of Klan rallies and whatnot. There are a lot of conflicting elements that are trying to solve itself in that city.
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The most difficult thing about music videos is that a lot of young filmmakers come into the medium, and they have so many different ideas, but they need to understand what the musician wants.
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