"When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director."

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"When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director."

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"In this movie they took them up in space. They're floating around and doing zero gravity stuff. Well, they had to do it all on wires. All the wires had to be painted black against this black background. If you didn't light it properly you could see the wires. Drove them crazy!"

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