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" I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I try to be invisible. "

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" I'll still make movies for studios, but my editing process will be much further removed from the studio system. Because I don't understand it. I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies. So if that's how they do it, then I don't think I want to do it. "

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