Dan Fogelman
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it was a play i feel overwhelmed directing because i don't always have the lingo and i don't know camera lenses and i don't know i still get confused about a long lens you know what i mean and i i never felt intimidated in edit bay somehow um because i just was like putting a puzzle together it's something i really i think i like yeah so you've been involved
it was a play i feel overwhelmed directing because i don't always have the lingo and i don't know camera lenses and i don't know i still get confused about a long lens you know what i mean and i i never felt intimidated in edit bay somehow um because i just was like putting a puzzle together it's something i really i think i like yeah so you've been involved
it was a play i feel overwhelmed directing because i don't always have the lingo and i don't know camera lenses and i don't know i still get confused about a long lens you know what i mean and i i never felt intimidated in edit bay somehow um because i just was like putting a puzzle together it's something i really i think i like yeah so you've been involved
in the editing of your projects from the beginning. From the beginning. Not my films, although I've directed now two films, but earlier in my career, I got to make a bunch of TV shows that didn't really cut through, but I was making 22 episodes and you just start learning.
in the editing of your projects from the beginning. From the beginning. Not my films, although I've directed now two films, but earlier in my career, I got to make a bunch of TV shows that didn't really cut through, but I was making 22 episodes and you just start learning.
in the editing of your projects from the beginning. From the beginning. Not my films, although I've directed now two films, but earlier in my career, I got to make a bunch of TV shows that didn't really cut through, but I was making 22 episodes and you just start learning.
And a lot of people, when they get their one chance to make a TV show, don't have that experience, you know, so then they aren't ready for it maybe when it comes. So it took, you know, I started making stuff when I was 25, 26. Even the animated films, I was heavily involved in sitting with the directors and the edit bays and everything. And so I think you start learning.
And a lot of people, when they get their one chance to make a TV show, don't have that experience, you know, so then they aren't ready for it maybe when it comes. So it took, you know, I started making stuff when I was 25, 26. Even the animated films, I was heavily involved in sitting with the directors and the edit bays and everything. And so I think you start learning.
And a lot of people, when they get their one chance to make a TV show, don't have that experience, you know, so then they aren't ready for it maybe when it comes. So it took, you know, I started making stuff when I was 25, 26. Even the animated films, I was heavily involved in sitting with the directors and the edit bays and everything. And so I think you start learning.
And it's just, it really isn't, editorial just requires like kind of like knowing what you like and what you don't, pacing. It doesn't need, you don't, if you have editors you trust, which I do, you don't need to know the lingo or be able to, that's always the thing that holds me back is not having a formal film or television education, but it never held me back there.
And it's just, it really isn't, editorial just requires like kind of like knowing what you like and what you don't, pacing. It doesn't need, you don't, if you have editors you trust, which I do, you don't need to know the lingo or be able to, that's always the thing that holds me back is not having a formal film or television education, but it never held me back there.
And it's just, it really isn't, editorial just requires like kind of like knowing what you like and what you don't, pacing. It doesn't need, you don't, if you have editors you trust, which I do, you don't need to know the lingo or be able to, that's always the thing that holds me back is not having a formal film or television education, but it never held me back there.
Like I was just watching the opening of this episode that we're talking about. And I was watching the scene where Milo and Mandy are in the hospital room after the fire. I can't remember what happens in every episode, but I can remember every edit almost. It's a weird thing. And I don't watch the show often.
Like I was just watching the opening of this episode that we're talking about. And I was watching the scene where Milo and Mandy are in the hospital room after the fire. I can't remember what happens in every episode, but I can remember every edit almost. It's a weird thing. And I don't watch the show often.
Like I was just watching the opening of this episode that we're talking about. And I was watching the scene where Milo and Mandy are in the hospital room after the fire. I can't remember what happens in every episode, but I can remember every edit almost. It's a weird thing. And I don't watch the show often.
Decisions. And I was going, oh, what's there? I was watching something and something bumped me. And I go, oh, I know what it is. It was the littlest thing, but they're sitting in the hospital room. It's the last time they'll ever talk. And it was such an important scene. Yeah. And I remember like Mandy compliments Milo like three times in it, how super human he is.
Decisions. And I was going, oh, what's there? I was watching something and something bumped me. And I go, oh, I know what it is. It was the littlest thing, but they're sitting in the hospital room. It's the last time they'll ever talk. And it was such an important scene. Yeah. And I remember like Mandy compliments Milo like three times in it, how super human he is.
Decisions. And I was going, oh, what's there? I was watching something and something bumped me. And I go, oh, I know what it is. It was the littlest thing, but they're sitting in the hospital room. It's the last time they'll ever talk. And it was such an important scene. Yeah. And I remember like Mandy compliments Milo like three times in it, how super human he is.
And there's a rhythm where she's like, where you go, you're the best. And he says, I try. And the scripted line response was, no, you don't. Like meaning try, no, you don't even try. And that's what makes you. But it was like the third time you had complimented him in the scene. And I remember thinking, it's getting too much.
And there's a rhythm where she's like, where you go, you're the best. And he says, I try. And the scripted line response was, no, you don't. Like meaning try, no, you don't even try. And that's what makes you. But it was like the third time you had complimented him in the scene. And I remember thinking, it's getting too much.