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Hiro Murai
American Director
Born: 1983
Always Atlanta Me Music Videos You
Related authors: David Lynch George Lucas Martin Scorsese Spike Lee Steven Spielberg Tim Burton Woody Allen
In Japan, animation is a big part of your media diet. I moved out to Los Angeles at 9, and when I got homesick, I would watch anime. Hiro Murai
Big Out Would Angeles Animation Part Anime Got Los Los Angeles Big Part Diet Moved Japan Your Media Homesick Watch
Most of the time, I'm a little bewildered or sort of feel out of place. Hiro Murai
Time Out Feel Bewildered Most Sort Place Little
I love David Lynch movies, and I like Haruki Murakami books. Hiro Murai
Love Books David David Lynch Like Movies
I like absurdist aesthetics. There's something about dream logic that's really fascinating, how it interweaves with narrative. Hiro Murai
Dream Logic About Something Like Narrative How Aesthetic Really Fascinating
I thought there was a way of marrying what I wanted to do with filmmaking with pop videos, which I found out through a couple projects just wasn't possible. That's not saying anything about the artist. If you're making an Usher video, you're making an Usher video, not a film with an Usher song in it. Hiro Murai
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FX is a network; that's their whole model, letting creators make the thing they want to make and then marketing it really well. Hiro Murai
Marketing Network Well Make Model Want Then Really Whole Creators Letting Thing
I don't know why, but even my nighttime dreams are very, very rooted in reality. They just start to become surreal, little by little. That exact moment when you're about to realize that this might be a dream is my favorite thing. Hiro Murai
Dreams You Reality Become Nighttime Favorite Dream Favorite Thing Exact About Know Surreal Very Just Little Might Realize Rooted Moment Even Why Thing Start
I'll listen to a song so much that ideas start to form out of daydreaming. It's as if I'm reverse-scoring the track and building visuals around a specific beat or riff that's grabbed me. Hiro Murai
Me Song Building Out Visuals Beat Daydreaming Ideas Track Around Grabbed Listen Form Much Riff Specific Start
I think to truly not know what to expect out of the story - to create a world where nothing is guaranteed - is sort of the backbone of 'Atlanta.' Hiro Murai
World Nothing Think Backbone Out Atlanta Know Sort Truly Expect Where Story Create Guaranteed
Your understanding of culture can be very skewed sometimes, depending on what you're taking in! Hiro Murai
You Culture Sometimes Understanding Taking Very Depending Skewed Your
I did a short film with Donald Glover for one of his Childish Gambino projects, and Flying Lotus was an actor in it. Hiro Murai
Childish Projects Flying His Lotus Did Donald Short Short Film Film Actor
That feeling of wavering between reality and supernatural has always been really interesting to me. Hiro Murai
Me Reality Feeling Wavering Supernatural Between Always Been Interesting Really
I'm one of those people who keep a dream journal. Hiro Murai
People Those Dream Journal Who Keep
I just got a Filmstruck account so I can watch all of those Criterion movies streaming. I've been nerding out about that. Hiro Murai
Those Criterion Out About Got Been Account Just Movies Streaming Watch
In a lot of comedy shows, there's a safety net where you don't assume anything of real consequence will happen. Hiro Murai
You Comedy Safety Will Assume Net Comedy Shows Safety Net Real Lot Where Happen Anything Shows Consequence
I usually work in music videos, where we shoot, like, 10 to 12 setups and 60 shots or something. Hiro Murai
Work Music Videos Music Videos Something Like Shoot Where Shots
Whether it's a TV show or a music video, the seed of the idea is what's driving my decisions, not the format or the outcome. Hiro Murai
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Regularly in music videos, I'll write the pitch and convince the artists that this is a good idea, and then I'm having to make concessions to meet in the middle. Hiro Murai
Music Good Videos Meet Music Videos Having Write Idea Make Pitch Artists Middle Then Convince Regularly Good Idea
I grew up listening to hip hop and embracing black culture, probably because it was 'outsider art.' Hiro Murai
Art Culture Listening Black Hop Embracing Outsider Because Hip Hip-Hop Up Grew
I've always preferred being behind the camera. Hiro Murai
Always Camera Behind Being Preferred
I think a season of 'Atlanta' bounces back between classic sitcom structure and genre movies. Hiro Murai
Think Back Atlanta Classic Structure Between Genre Sitcom Movies Season
I got into film school thinking I was going to make features, like every other film geek. Hiro Murai
School Every Thinking Other Geek Features Like Make Got Going Film Film School
Two things - one is obvious: always keep making. The second thing, with regard to music videos specifically - the music video industry can be a place that takes advantage of young freelancers and filmmakers. Make sure you're making stuff that you're proud of and you can get behind. Hiro Murai
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Part of the fun is finding out how elastic that box is and, you know, test the limits of what TV shows can do or what a music video can do. Hiro Murai
Music You Music Video Out TV Finding TV Shows Part Know Box How Limits Test Elastic Video Fun Shows
Whenever you're making something, you're hoping that it connects with somebody in some big way, but I'd have to be crazy to expect that. Hiro Murai
Crazy You Somebody Big Way Hoping Some Something Making Expect Whenever Big Way Connects
Even if an episode is self-contained, the preceding episodes always affect how the audience takes it in. Hiro Murai
Takes Self-Contained Audience Always How Affect Episode Episodes Even
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