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RaMell Ross

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'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

And that filtered into my image making. It's like, oh yes, of course, it's true. I did use the language in a way that totalized the place in my point of view. I need to be more specific. What is my Hale County? I need to say it's my Hale County. How do you make images that feel that specific?

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

And that filtered into my image making. It's like, oh yes, of course, it's true. I did use the language in a way that totalized the place in my point of view. I need to be more specific. What is my Hale County? I need to say it's my Hale County. How do you make images that feel that specific?

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

And that filtered into my image making. It's like, oh yes, of course, it's true. I did use the language in a way that totalized the place in my point of view. I need to be more specific. What is my Hale County? I need to say it's my Hale County. How do you make images that feel that specific?

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

How do you make images that feel that personal so that, again, you're not presenting the place as incorrect because it is actually your perspective and that's built into the reading of it?

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

How do you make images that feel that personal so that, again, you're not presenting the place as incorrect because it is actually your perspective and that's built into the reading of it?

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

How do you make images that feel that personal so that, again, you're not presenting the place as incorrect because it is actually your perspective and that's built into the reading of it?

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

I'm so glad you're asking. That's so... Man, I forget that I did that.

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'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

I'm so glad you're asking. That's so... Man, I forget that I did that.

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

I'm so glad you're asking. That's so... Man, I forget that I did that.

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

I do. Well, it's not something... I thought about it every day leading up to it for about three years. But afterwards... In the same way that you skydive or you, you know, you swim in the Mariana Trench, you take that experience in and then now the anxiety is over. You have it in your body and in your brain and you kind of go forward.

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'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

I do. Well, it's not something... I thought about it every day leading up to it for about three years. But afterwards... In the same way that you skydive or you, you know, you swim in the Mariana Trench, you take that experience in and then now the anxiety is over. You have it in your body and in your brain and you kind of go forward.

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

I do. Well, it's not something... I thought about it every day leading up to it for about three years. But afterwards... In the same way that you skydive or you, you know, you swim in the Mariana Trench, you take that experience in and then now the anxiety is over. You have it in your body and in your brain and you kind of go forward.

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

Well, I love that you asked because that idea is where the boxcar imagery came from in Nickel Boys. Like, that's how I came up with that thought. Yeah.

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

Well, I love that you asked because that idea is where the boxcar imagery came from in Nickel Boys. Like, that's how I came up with that thought. Yeah.

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

Well, I love that you asked because that idea is where the boxcar imagery came from in Nickel Boys. Like, that's how I came up with that thought. Yeah.

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

Because I wondered, like, I mean, the box, it was built by myself and the design was led by this guy, Bobby Davis, who kind of runs my art studio in Rhode Island. And it's built out of Alabama Railroad ties, too, which is just really, really, really cool. You can't access it from the outside. You can only get out. Because, you know, we're relatively thoughtful dudes.

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

Because I wondered, like, I mean, the box, it was built by myself and the design was led by this guy, Bobby Davis, who kind of runs my art studio in Rhode Island. And it's built out of Alabama Railroad ties, too, which is just really, really, really cool. You can't access it from the outside. You can only get out. Because, you know, we're relatively thoughtful dudes.

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

Because I wondered, like, I mean, the box, it was built by myself and the design was led by this guy, Bobby Davis, who kind of runs my art studio in Rhode Island. And it's built out of Alabama Railroad ties, too, which is just really, really, really cool. You can't access it from the outside. You can only get out. Because, you know, we're relatively thoughtful dudes.

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

And the person whose truck I was on, it was a gooseneck trailer, open air. We got him from this website, YouShip. He didn't know I was in there.

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

And the person whose truck I was on, it was a gooseneck trailer, open air. We got him from this website, YouShip. He didn't know I was in there.