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Hiro Murai

"A lot of my personality and my affinity for certain pieces of pop culture and art all stem from a sort of Japanese aesthetic and way of thinking."
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Art Personality Culture Thinking
"I don't know why, but even my nighttime dreams are very, very rooted in reality. They just start to become surreal, little by little. That exact moment when you're about to realize that this might be a dream is my favorite thing."
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Dreams You Moment Reality
"Two things - one is obvious: always keep making. The second thing, with regard to music videos specifically - the music video industry can be a place that takes advantage of young freelancers and filmmakers. Make sure you're making stuff that you're proud of and you can get behind."
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You Music Always Proud
"I did a short film with Donald Glover for one of his Childish Gambino projects, and Flying Lotus was an actor in it."
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Childish Short Actor Flying
"I think music videos in particular and film in general - it's really good at communicating tone and feeling."
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Good Music Feeling Think
"In Japan, animation is a big part of your media diet. I moved out to Los Angeles at 9, and when I got homesick, I would watch anime."
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Media Big Diet Your
"I love David Lynch movies, and I like Haruki Murakami books."
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Love Like Movies Books
"I thought there was a way of marrying what I wanted to do with filmmaking with pop videos, which I found out through a couple projects just wasn't possible. That's not saying anything about the artist. If you're making an Usher video, you're making an Usher video, not a film with an Usher song in it."
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You Song Way Anything
"FX is a network; that's their whole model, letting creators make the thing they want to make and then marketing it really well."
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Want Well Make Then
"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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You Voice Back Tell
"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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Me Song Start Ideas
"Most of the time, I'm a little bewildered or sort of feel out of place."
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Time Feel Place Little
"I think to truly not know what to expect out of the story - to create a world where nothing is guaranteed - is sort of the backbone of 'Atlanta.'"
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World Nothing Think Know
"Every time I've rushed into something, that's usually when I have regrets."
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Time Something Every Rushed
"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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You City Go Trying
"I'm an immigrant, and I think being an outsider in your home is something that I really relate to."
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Home Think Your Something
"I remember, when 'Atlanta' first happened, I didn't know what to expect. It felt like it was a lot of responsibility."
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Responsibility Remember Know Like
"Your understanding of culture can be very skewed sometimes, depending on what you're taking in!"
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You Culture Understanding Sometimes
"Some people draw a line between music videos and short films, looking down on music videos as a format, but there's so much potential in music videos."
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Music People Looking Down
"That feeling of wavering between reality and supernatural has always been really interesting to me."
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Me Reality Always Feeling
"I'm one of those people who keep a dream journal."
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People Who Dream Keep
"'Twin Peaks' was my gateway for David Lynch."
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Peaks Gateway Twin Twin Peaks
"I just got a Filmstruck account so I can watch all of those Criterion movies streaming. I've been nerding out about that."
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Movies I Can About Just
"In a lot of comedy shows, there's a safety net where you don't assume anything of real consequence will happen."
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You Will Real Anything
"As an Asian guy, I would love to see a big blockbuster with Asian lead characters."
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Love Big See Lead
"I usually work in music videos, where we shoot, like, 10 to 12 setups and 60 shots or something."
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Work Music Like Something
"Whether it's a TV show or a music video, the seed of the idea is what's driving my decisions, not the format or the outcome."
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Music Driving Seed Decisions
"Regularly in music videos, I'll write the pitch and convince the artists that this is a good idea, and then I'm having to make concessions to meet in the middle."
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Good Music Meet Music Videos
"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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Action Think Camera Stage
"I've loved music all my life."
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Life Music My Life Loved
"I like stories where it feels like you're only seeing a small window of a bigger world."
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You World Window Like
"It's something that I've always been attracted to, that idea of letting everything happen in a single frame."
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Always Everything Something Frame
"I was fortunate to work on a few episodes of 'Barry' right before we shot 'Atlanta.' That was where I got my training wheels for action coverage."
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Work Training Action Right
"Directing action scenes is really just pure visual storytelling that just makes sense to me pretty intuitively."
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Me Action Just Pure
"I used to be terrified of heights as a kid."
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Heights Used Kid Terrified
"Most of the time, I can't listen to the song after the video's done. Sometimes I'll hear a song that I've worked on at a restaurant or on the radio, and I'll have this visceral physical reaction."
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Time Song Restaurant Sometimes
"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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You Weird Start Sight
"I've never been robbed in person, but I've gotten my car broken into a couple of times."
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Car Never Broken Person
"We always talk about how, obviously, there is still very in-your-face aggressive racism. But there's a lot of passive racism that, in the moment, you don't even realize is racist. You chalk it up as a strange interaction you had, and then you look at the context of it later on and realize the root of it was racism."
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You Moment Look Always
"I grew up listening to hip hop and embracing black culture, probably because it was 'outsider art.'"
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Art Culture Black Listening
"A TV show has to be a certain length and, you know, you have expectations from the viewers. You know, you want to see the characters again, or you want to see certain dynamics between the characters or certain kinds of storylines. And you kind of figure out how to best fit what you want to say into that format."
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Best You Want See
"It might sound naive, but for me, you know, for me, the important part is kind of making process. So I'm not super result oriented, and I just, like, kind of getting lost in the process of making something."
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Me You Getting Result
"I've always preferred being behind the camera."
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Always Behind Camera Being
"I'm a first-generation Japanese immigrant."
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Immigrant Japanese
"I never thought of myself as a TV director."
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Myself Never Thought Director
"'Atlanta' changes genres a lot per episode."
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Atlanta Genres Changes Lot
"I think a season of 'Atlanta' bounces back between classic sitcom structure and genre movies."
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Think Back Movies Classic
"'Atlanta' is Wild West-y - every corner of the city is trying to get by under its own rules. There's no single narrative. At the outer edges, the overgrown parking lots and project blocks, the city is a few yards away from apocalypse, and if you slow down, it could engulf you."
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You City Wild Rules
"If I were FX, I wouldn't have hired me."
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Me Were Hired

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