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Most People See A Documentary About The Meat Industry And Then They Become A Vegetarian For A Week.

From The Onset Of The 'live-read' Series, We Wanted To Hit All The Major Writers And Woody Allen Is Simply One Of The Greatest Screenwriters Of All Time. He Has Ability To Match Pathos And Comedy And Drama And Then Turn It All On A Dime. If You're Going To Make A Series Based On Dialogue, You Can't Find Much Better Than Woody Allen.

Directing Is A Reactionary Job More Than A Creation Job. The Job Is To React Whether It's Moment One, The First Time You Read The Script Or See An Article Or Read A Book Or Notice Something Happen On The Street And Have An Idea For A Movie, And It Just Continues From There On In. You're Just Reacting To Dialogue, A Performance, An Audition, A Headache, A Piece Of Furniture, A Piece Of Clothing.

I Really Enjoy Theater. I Just Went To See 'death Of A Salesman,' And It Knocked Me On My Ass.

And As A Director, You Make 1,000 Decisions A Day, Mostly Binary Decisions: Yes Or No, This One Or That One, The Red One Or The Blue One, Faster Or Slower. And It's The Culmination Of Those Decisions That Define The Tone Of The Film And Whether Or Not It Moves People.