
S5 Ep46: Ruben Östlund, filmmaker
In Writing with Hattie Crisell
How Do You Approach Filmmaking Through Writing?
I didn't approach filmmaking through writing really. I mean I started out as a ski filmmaker so my interest for filmmaking actually came through the video camera. When I was a kid on Stuscha which is a small island on the west coast of Sweden then you could borrow VHS camera and VHS editing from the commune. And we were filming windsurfing and rock climbing and skiing like our interest basically. It's funny to not really realise that you had this skill for writing until that point because you're so talented. But I suppose it's all part of the same thing of storytelling which you were exploring when you were younger with the camera. Maybe I think that when I write a
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