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Morgan Fallon

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  1. “I mean, it's an incredible compliment coming from you and everything that you do and bring. And I think you bring that same humanity to everything that you do, a real marker of your success. So, I mean, listen, I'm humbled, man, by the whole thing. So thank you.”

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  2. “Me and like the best way is give me a perspective on what this world really is FYI, we should fucking take care of it. And don't be so goddamn afraid of other people. I keep telling people what I saw out there, seven continents, 70 countries, and a lot of hairy moments, you know, and a lot of beautiful moments and a lot of whatever 99% of the people that we encountered were just beautiful, awesome people that wanted to take us into their homes and feed us and share their life with us and tell us who they were. And that's the truth of what's out there. There's a lot of othering that goes on in this world. Same concerns, same people, all of them. Same shit we're trying to do.”

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  3. “It that way. I actually mean I hope that what we did at the end of the day was be able to bring some of that back and show people what is out there. It is vast and beautiful and extraordinary and so much bigger than our little daily kind of day-to-day context and not trying to belittle or trivialize that. There's something very freeing about the humility that comes with like those massive spaces and being able to say like no one's ever stood here, this ice is 50,000 years old or this is timeless. This goes so much deeper and beyond me. I hope that maybe everyone gets to experience some degree of that at some point in their life because I think it's really important to be able to feel small. And ultimately that is what the show did, I guess.”

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  4. “Helicopter's still hot and just had this moment of like, this is it, man. This is the top. For this particular thing that I'm going to do in my life, this particular journey, nothing is going to get any cooler than this. Nothing is going to get any more singular, inaccessible, or like amazing to be able to do those things and see those places and to hope to be able to capture enough of that in an organic enough way that it would translate some of what that journey was to people at home who will never be as lucky as I've been to stumble into this thing and to be able to hang out and hang on and get to that place. That was it, man. I don't know. It feels kind of selfish to tell that story in a way because, oh, look at, you know, look at the awesome fucking thing that I got to do. But I actually don't mean...”

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  5. “Cop back into helicopter, and then he'd do some crazy drop off the cliff where you're like weightless for a second and go fly around and going through canyons and just everything you ever wanted to do if you ever had a helicopter and an Apache pilot to yourself, you know, and we're filming and filming and filming and Eventually, we need fuel. We stop at this refueling station. There's intermittent refueling stations around. And we're sitting there. And, you know, surrounded by 55 gallon drums. Pretty lonely, you know, out there. You, I mean, you are literally at that point, you are living on Hoth And they come out with these pulled pork sandwiches. Like they made pulled pork sandwiches for us. And so we're sitting there drinking warm coffee, eating pulled pork sandwiches over a 55-gallon drum of jet fuel.”

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  6. “And just took us on a tour of all the craziest shit that he could get to within fuel range of that substation. And, you know, we're flying through these canyons and no one's ever been in, fly you up to a cliff that's 2,000 feet high. The scale of Antarctica cannot be described. You'd be like, we'd be on this cliff that's 2,000 feet high looking down into a valley where you could easily fit Manhattan with room left. No one's ever believed touched and standing in a place where no human beings ever been.”

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  7. “Kind of soak it up. It's like you know bright sunlight 12 at night. He was playing specifically, he was playing gin and juice. I remember that. And we're all just having a great time. We go to sleep, camp out next to the glacier there, and wake up the next morning. And the next morning, we were just going to shoot B-roll. And we get picked up by a helicopter, right? An A star that's piloted by a pilot who had been flying Apaches and Cobras in Afghanistan and then got to go down and be one of these pilots on the ice. But when you're a pilot down there, basically all you do is you either pick up human waste and shuttle it back to McMurdo from these substations or you're like ferrying scientists and samples back and forth. Like you don't really get to do a lot of fun stuff. But then we're like the rock and roll crew that comes in and we get this pilot who's just hot to trot and do you want to go see some shit? And we're like, yeah, we want to go see some shit.”

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  8. “And we did this thing where we went out to a place called Dry Valleys, which is kind of like the get if you go to Antarctica, you hang out at McMurdo. Dry Valleys is interesting because they've had no precipitation for like 10,000 years. So you're in Antarctica, but it looks like you're in the desert. People don't know this. There's places in Antarctica where there's no snow where WeWER was kind of mixed. You get glaciers and you get rock. So we go have this incredible meal, this crew that's there. We're drinking whiskey out of ice, these little shot glasses they make out of the ice there that's 50,000 years old. Ice in our drinks is 50,000 years old. There's a beach there next to the, so we're like sitting on the beach. Tony's playing music as he always would. He would be like the DJ. We drink, shoot a little, play frisbee, shoot the shit, talk”

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  9. “But me and Tony and the rest in the crew, it was actually the show was directed by Eric Osterhome, which I got to give him had props for getting us down there and produced by Josh Farrell, who was like also just like a great producer and co-DP on that was Fred Minau, who's a gifted cinematographer. And we also had Josh Flanagan, who is one of our other DPs, who's also just gifted on this show. So we have this incredible crew. We had our own friggin C-130 flying around.”

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  10. “There's so many things like when we were going to do this, I was just going through all this incredible experiences in my mind. It's too much to get into one thing. But I did want to talk about one day that I felt like it was really the best day of my career. And I feel like really got to typify what the whole experience was about. Then I don't know if this will make the cut or anything that anyone wants to hear my anecdote. We did this show in Antarctica, which was a huge show for us. And I think was really like showed, it was a real expression of what I was talking about. Like, you can't buy this ride. You got to earn this with something special like that show. We get invited to go down to Antarctica. You know now you've been. You know, you fly to Christchurch, Hoppa C-130 to McMurdo. And then from McMurdo, we hopped another C-130 to the South Pole. Like we had our own C-130. Like, how ridiculous is it?”

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  11. “Man, this is the dream. We're on the coolest show on TV, the best ride you can possibly go on if you're a, you know, a centralist who wants to see the world. This is it. It doesn't get better than this. We're doing it together. We're able to bring our kids. The next show that we talked about potentially doing was in Kyoto. It's like, you know, who doesn't want to do that? We had the dream, you know, and we had worked really hard to get there. And a week later, that was gone. And that was a tough blow. And so we've just focused in on like, okay, cool. How do we get back there? And that's, I mean, man, that's so important to me. She's also super, super good at what she does. So it makes it easy. Now she's outgrowing me though because everyone wants her.”

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  12. “When Tony died, Jillian and I had just finished co-directing, co-producing the second parts unknown that we made for him. And it was in Florence. It's a show that has not aired. It was never finished. We shot it a week before Tony died. And we were sitting with Tony on the last day. And he turned to Jillian. And he gave her his seal of approval. I said, I like this. I like working with you. We're going to do this a lot more. I just signed another three years and like buckle up, get ready. And that was the last interaction the three of us had together. And Jill and I went home that night. We looked at each other like we did it. You know, we did.”

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  13. “But for, I mean, for me, it was like realizing that, you know, anyone who doesn't think that taking care of kids in the household isn't like a full-time professional job is like just has not done the work and does not understand what goes into it. It is a full-time gig if my wife was going to go back to work and we were going to have this future where we could work together. I had to be willing to annie up. I did. And like it made all the difference. But what a dream, right? You know, I mean. Just to put this in perspective a little, and I don't want to cry on my own violin here, but.”

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  14. “It shoot her. I think that that's going to be okay. Was it Daddy Longleg in the house? I'll come handle it, sweetheart. I just got to finish this up, though. So give me 10 minutes, okay? Give me 10 or 15 minutes. You don't have to worry about that. And I do need some space to work. You say hi to Tim? You say hi to Tim?”

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  15. “That's right. I said to her, like, if you go back to work, I will learn how to do this stuff. I promise you, I will follow through on my end of holding up the family, my end of the household.”

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  16. “Number one relationship killer, right? If we're just talking about the relationships, you say you're going to do something? Do it. Don't not do it. You're breaking trust, you know. And when it came down to my wife going back to work after she raised the kids and went through two home births without medication, I have to mention that because she's rugged as shit.”

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  17. “You know, I hope I needed to do a couple of things to make it all work. This is the life I want. I want to work with my wife. I want to travel around the world with my wife. I want to be as much a part of helping her build her career as I want to build my own, you know. But it took for me coming to the point where I had to be like, you are going to have to learn how to lose, not be right about everything, give her space, let her learn, you know, let her teach you and follow through on the shit that you say you're going to do. And that to me is like.”

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  18. “Honestly, be willing to lose and be honest about what is right in a particular situation. I think a lot of times in relationships we spend so much time trying to prove that we're in control and competent. I think, again, it is giving someone the respect to give them space and allow them to take control of a situation. We do that at home with the kids. We do that in our household. We do it at work. I don't know, I came up with this concept. I didn't come up with it. What the fuck am I talking about? It tapped into an age-old concept that I feel like has some wisdom to it, which is like this idea of like strategic loss. Be willing to lose some fucking battles. What are you trying to prove? It's your wife. I mean, she's not going anywhere.”

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  19. “Fantastic spider. I don't honestly know Tim. I mean, you want to keep progressing, right? You want to keep building and keep, you know, you want to see how far you can go. I think that I'm open, man. I'm like open. I want, you know, I want new challenges just like everyone else. And we'll see where that goes.”

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  20. “We have to talk about it. We want to fix these issues. You have to talk about it, you know. But again, Kamal, and I don't want to speak out of turn here. But as a black comedian, I look at what Bill Cosby did. Bill Cosby broke more goddamn barriers, you know, what he accomplished was amazing. And that's why I think that what ended up coming out about Bill Cosby, which is pretty irrefutable, you know, despite the fact that he is now walking the streets free, that is soul crushing. That is hard to face. That is hard to deal with when you've looked at this as a person who has been able to transcend a lot of the boundaries that have held you down. So I think as a black American to do that and to take that on head on is damn gutsy. I think you should be applauded for that regardless, again, of how you feel.”

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  21. “We know a plan B is like all you got to do is read history, you know what plan B is plan B is blood man plan B is not good”

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  22. “We got to be able to talk about these things with each other without ripping each other's heads off. And more and more it feels like we're just ripping each other's heads off. So whereas my life was really focused on the external world, you know, the world outside of the United States for so many years with Tony, I felt like at a time when we really needed to look inward, like I got a chance to, you know, I have gotten a chance to do that with Kamal. And it's been amazing learned a tremendous amount about who we are. And I've seen some shit that I can't unsee. I feel like it's so hard for us as white Americans to get a glimpse into what it's like to be black in this country. And I will never know that. And I know that I will never know that, but I've been able to see with much clearer resolution than I think a lot of people get to see what that experience is like. And I can't unsee it now.”

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  23. “And other places. Shot this great show, and at the end of it, I kind of with a little bit of scumbaggery producer-ness said, hey, listen, like, if you're ever dissatisfied with your production,”

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  24. “Really brave a Kamal to come out and like be willing to have that conversation. A lot of people weren't. That's who he is. We took him to Kenya simply because his name is Kenyan. Kamau in Kenya is like Dan here. You know, you look at the phone book and it's like half the people in the phone book are Kamao's. We went, we shot this awesome show there. So cool. Went on Safari. We're like three feet from lions. The Safari was Black Rhinos, white rhinos, hung out with the Maasai, hung out in Nairobi, which is an incredible, incredible city. Again, with like a really young, really vibrant, really hardworking population that is another place that is just driving this kind of like, how does one even say it? I mean, Africa's on fire right now. And I believe it's the next real growth place. I mean, with some hot centers around like Legos and Nairobi and across”

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  25. “Kamal is a comedian from Oakland, black comedian from Oakland who has, you know, really, I think carved out like a niche for himself dealing in identity and cultural issues in the United States, but from a comedic lens. And has been someone who's really been willing to sit down with the other and have honest conversations with them, but do it in a way that is not so heavily laden. He's really kind of brilliant at that. Again, I mean, one of these people that I'm so lucky to have the opportunity to work with because he's super smart, super dynamic, and is doing something at a time in America where I like really believe we need it, where we are talking about these things head on his current project, which I had absolutely nothing to do with, is the four-part documentary on Showtime on Bill Cosby. And I think it's”

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  26. “I mean, this was like, again, this is like one of those lucky moments where you're like, oh, well, obviously, I'm going to do that. We had taken Kamal Bell to Kenya on parts unknown. And CNN wanted to do a crossover show. Kamal has a Kenyan name, though I don't know what his genetic descent is, but probably West African, not East African.”

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  27. “And it was just for me personally, for me professionally in every way, it was like this is full circle. This is how you make peace with something that's painful in your childhood. You go and you confront it and you find out what's really there beneath the surface and then you try to be benevolent about what it is. And I guess that's in part now I'm kind of making this a little bit of a leap. you know, looking for, like we said earlier, looking for the gift in something. Here's this thing that was really painful for me as a child, but there was this tremendous gift in it, which was like an understanding of this place and a connection to it that allowed us to go and do something within our own country looking at ourselves at a time when we critically need it because we are fucking falling apart if you haven't noticed, you know?”

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  28. “Because it showed, you know, on a show called Parts Unknown, we're going to central Appalachia in the United States. I think it showed his ability to walk into a context and environment. This is right after Trump was elected, by the way, to walk into a context and environment and see people for who they really are, not what our perception of them is, not based on his political feelings, not based on anything but the evidence of sitting down with someone and saying like, what are your values? What does life mean to you? What do you want? What are you looking for? And as soon as he saw who they were, he responded to it. We made this beautiful show. It was one of the few shows that we got to do where CNN gave us extra time. They gave us an extended episode, show one and Emmy. And I sent the Emmy back to Welsh. And it's in Welsh.”

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  29. “Past 50 years. The place has just been like decimated. It's always number two or three on the most impoverished counties list in the United States. And we went there and I had this moment where I was like taking Tony to a place where there's no restaurants. There's no food. It's like literally a food desert. Is he going to connect with this place? Is he going to like see what I feel like I saw, which was what I feel like we were kind of always looking for to some degree in the show, which was like the beauty that's underneath that surface level. And we went there. We go through the first couple days of shooting and then Tony starts tweeting like these tweets, nothing moves me like this place. Just all these really beautiful, wonderful. And I had this moment where I was like, yeah, dude, like it's Tony, man. Of course he gets it. Of course, like he gets what you're trying to show him. Of course, he gets these people in this place. And I think it was so important.”

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  30. “Many jokes do you know about hillbillies? It's not true. This is like the hardest working, most independent, rugged, self-determining people. And that's the reason they went to those mountains in the first place. They are the heart of who we're supposed to be as a country. And I think we've seen, and I don't want to dive into politics here, but I think we've seen the result of what happens when you shit on those people and you ignore them. They get fucking angry and they got a right to. I always wanted to go back and make a show from what I saw there in the hardships that those folks were going through. And so we were in Antarctica with Tony and I pitched him on a West Virginia show and he was stoked on doing it. And so we got to go back to the town of Welsh in McDowell County. McDowell County is the highest percentage population loss in the United States for any county over the”

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  31. “They didn't even exist. And so it created a tough environment. And I grew up to some degree in West Virginia in an environment that was kind of tough. We didn't have running water, electricity. Really formative moment in my life and had really bad associations with West Virginia for a long time and wouldn't, you know, just wouldn't think about it, wouldn't go there. I went back in 2003 after I stopped working for Michael Mann and I happened to be there in southern West Virginia when there was really bad flooding. And I saw these people and had this moment where I was just like, you're talking about the heart and soul of America. They are Especially when you get down to southern West Virginia. That is a mixed group of white folks, black folks who came to that area to build lives for themselves and in the process built this country. And we basically shit on them. We engage in these ridiculous hyperbolic stereotypes of who they are. We consider them to be uneducated. And I mean, how many?”

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  32. “West Virginia, for me, you know, and this is a very personal story. So if everyone can bear with me, like West Virginia for me was the most important thing that I ever did. And when I say West Virginia, I'm like talking about the parts unknown episode of West Virginia. I had lived in West Virginia when I was a kid and my family went through a pretty tough time when we were there. My parents were kind of on the rocks. West Virginia can be a tough place, especially in that time. It's a place that's been hit really hard by the dynamics of extractive industries and capitalism. And listen, I'm not bitching about capitalism. I believe in capitalism, maybe not our particular form of it, but for the most part, I believe in it. But you have a state that was really predicated on the coal industry. And as soon as they found easier, cheaper coal in China and in Wyoming, they just dropped those people like.”

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  33. “Muzzle break, first of all, is a way to dispense the energy of the bullet coming out of the gun. It can provide accuracy and safety by pushing the energy of firing the bullet out to the sides. This muzzle break was made by J-Mac Customs and West Virginia, which is cool because they're an independent operation which takes people who were laid off in coal mines and various other extractive industries that have left West Virginia and put some to work and trains them as machinists. And they do high quality work. I'm not particularly into guns, but I respect what they're doing. And I'll probably get a little bit of commentary online about my understanding of the dynamics of muzzle brakes.”

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  34. “Work, hard work. I'm not that, and I'm not going to do it. And I never was. And I don't want to treat people like that. And listen, no shade on them. What they do is unbelievable. But, you know, I think I know myself enough now to know that that's not the style and how I'm going to accomplish what I need to accomplish. I think it's building people up now and saying, like, I trust you. Think about it this way. Think about it this way. Try this. I know from experience, I can tell you, you know, that this is going to work. Being willing to work with people.”

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  35. “In retrospect now, I think the number one thing is I would stay calm. I didn't stay calm in that moment because I was kind of dying because I knew I needed a shot. But I think I would stay calm and say, hey, listen, like this is happening right now. You need to break off. Let go what you're doing. Don't worry about the shot that you're on. We're fine on that. I got it in post, but we need this right now. I think that's a pretty easy explanation. But we tend not to do that because we're so controlling that in the moment it feels like you're losing control. And that's not the truth. You know, I think that as you get older, you get more experience with management unless you're going to be a gym Cameron or a Michael Mann, unless you're going to be a tyrant, which trust me, that's 20 hours a day of.”

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  36. “Ways to work with people and say, get what you want in a way that is a little smarter than just coming out and just hammering folks.”

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  37. “To approach what you need to get in a way that's positive and proactive. You know, we worked with Angelo Dundee when we were doing Ali. Angelo Dundee's to fill everyone in who doesn't know Angelo Dundee was Ali's trainer. He's one of the great boxing trainers of all time. So you want to talk about a level of expectation and perfection. I mean, that is operating at the very highest level of that. But he wouldn't come in and be like, your jab sucks and like what the fuck? Why am I wasting my time on, you know, blah, blah, blah, all this stuff. He would come to Alien, he'd be like, hey, you know, I was watching your jab. You're doing really good with that jab. I love the way that you're doing this. Even if it was something that Ali wasn't doing, he was trying to point out something to get a response, to get him to focus on a particular aspect of that movement. And I think that that's really important in finding.”

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  38. “I don't think it is either, and I think it took me some time, and I had times when I blew up at camera operators or DPs that I really regret because it was like exactly the wrong way to go about things. I had a DP who I really, really respect. We had a pretty vicious exchange in the field one time. And he came to me after and he's like, dude, he's like, you took what was just a lovely, delightful day where we were getting great stuff. And you fucking murdered it over a detail. And you ruined the whole vibe of the day in the shoot. And that was really profound for me. And I thought about that a lot. You know, for what? Because like he missed a shot that I knew was there. I know I was right. I know the shot was there. I knew the shot would make the edit. I knew it was important. Why I had to rip his head off about it. I have no idea now. I don't do that anymore. So I think that, you know, one aspect is just finding ways.”

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  39. “Get ready to relinquish control because if you don't, you're going to smother the people who are working under you. You need to trust them and you need to be able to work with the people who need work in a proactive manner to get them to the place where you need them to be because you are not going to be able to control everything anymore. When you have the camera in your hand, you have this tiny little world in the viewfinder and you can control every aspect of it. As you start to climb the ladder up to directing and then to show running, you need to depend on other people. So part of that is bringing good people in. The other part is understanding when you need to let people do their job”

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  40. “And it pissed a lot of people off. A lot of people come onto the show and be like, this is fucked. We don't get time to set up. We don't get something to do that. And I'd be like, dude, you are not cut out for this show or not just, dude. A lot of women, you know, in our line of work too. But you're not going to make it here because what you don't understand is that you're it up by trying to get it right. You got to learn how to not miss it the first time. And it might not be perfect. It might not be pretty, but you got to get it. That's how I would think about a scene like that. The most important element being that it doesn't happen again. It happens once”

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  41. “Exactly. And so it's looking for that. And understanding in two cameras, you know, you know that the people that are on your side of the line, the other camera is going to have them and the people that are on the other side of the line, you have them. And you're kind of those, that's how you divvy up the responsibility. But if you miss it, you miss it. And remember, these are not actors. You cannot go back. You cannot get those original reactions again. You have to get it in the moment. And that's where it gets back to Tony. And when he said, you be fast. And he was right about that.”

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  42. “Patting him on the shoulder and being like, Do you know? Do you know who this is? If I write about that, I feel like he at one point.”

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  43. “I'm getting to that part, right? I'm getting to that part you in their dynamic you need to cover the game right you need to cover the game but you need to be quick enough to know that you got to get up to the two shot you also got to establish the environment right and part of the environment and part of what you know is going to tell the story is the reaction of the people that are standing around so you got to get out to those wide shots got to see where the crowd is got to see where you know kind of everyone is placed right got to get in on the details of the game got to get in on their repor and then you got to start searching the audience that crowd that was standing there for the telling reaction shots and so what i'm standing in an environment like that i'll be doing my coverage looking around in any moment i get i'm looking up and i'm like who's the most expressive here who's the person that's going to come out with the big line who's the person that's going to and i think i remember that day someone being like eventually to the street hustler guy like like kind of”

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  44. “I don't remember the specific blocking, but this is what I would say. And remembering that scene and thinking about how I would go into that, right? So you know a couple things going in. You know that it's going to be all about the energy between them, right? And so you're looking at tight shots of eyes. You're looking at establishing their connection and establishing the board. You have two things going on. The connection between them in the shit talking and all that stuff and then what's going on in the board. And you got to cover what's going on on the board too.”

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  45. “Equal measure, right? That's right, and called him out when he tried to knock the pieces over and hustle him. Yeah. It reminded me there was a famous quote, I forget the name of the Crow Scout who was working with the U.S. Cavalry when Custer was decimated at Little Bighorn, but they asked him after how long it took. And he said, about as long as it takes a hungry man to eat a sandwich. And that's how we described Custer getting taken down at Little Bighorn. And that's how I would describe that grandmaster running through that cat. He fucking devoured him. It was so satisfying to watch. Not because I have anything against the street hustler, by the way, but just to see someone that proficient at something was incredible.”

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  46. “Yeah, I mean, so I don't remember the specifics of the blocking. I remember it was one of the coolest things that I've ever seen because you had this grandmaster chess player sit down with a New York City street hustler and listen. I don't know shit about chess, but I know that those New York City street hustlers are damn good chess players and they play fast. They can play. And we watched a grandmaster sit down and devour this cat as if he just didn't even exist.”

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  47. “Yeah, exactly. So you have two characters moving around in a dynamic environment there, and they're constantly crossing each other. They're constantly crossing the line. They're constantly moving around. Now, you need to know where that 180 degree line is all the time. In both your cameras need to be tuned up enough to move with that line and reestablish that line without thinking about it and without talking. And that's the dance that you're seeing. So when you talk about the dance, the dance is really maintained. And it is difficult to learn. And once you do learn it, like with anything else that's fun to do, it's a blast. It's really cool to work with someone that understands how that works.”

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  48. “I think what people don't appreciate a lot is that you need to establish the geometry of your environment in order for people to understand what's going on in a physical sense when you're in a scene. There's a lot of tricks to doing that. And there are some things that you can do that break that. And that's one of the things that you can do that breaks that. But now picture, you have two characters who are now like, I keep thinking of the one we did in Vegas, right, where you're basically, what did we call that episode? It wasn't the gambling one. It was.”

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  49. “You now have two characters either looking screen direction, right? Or screen direction left. And when you try to cut between them, it won't make sense because they both look like they're looking away from each other.”

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  50. “A lot of these rules are just set up to be broken, right? So there's a lot of variables in there, but in a basic sense, you are confusing your audience because the card that was going left to right. Is now going right to left. And that is confusing when you're following the continuity of an edit. The same thing with a conversation. If you have two characters and the cameras are standing on the same side of those characters, you have one character which is looking screen direction left and then you have one character that's looking screen direction right. And you're cutting in between of those. If one of those cameras crosses that line,”

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