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'The Last of Us' Director Craig Mazin

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The Importance of Compromise in Filmmaking

Craig Thomas: Sometimes the hardest thing is knowing how to compromise because you're forced to compromise constantly. And then some of it is psychological lessons, like there's this lengthy scene in the first episode where Joel and Tess confront Marlene and Kim and Ellie is there in between them. "It really is like everybody that makes things needs to remain a student," he says. 'There's always somebody that can teach you something'

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