I Love Redwood Trees

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i wanted to feel real, and real people aren't as black and white as my opinion. It's not easy to understand your children who were raised on the inner net if you weren't raised on the outer net. And it can often be like an extra step that doesn't get taken to make that real in people's lives. But as philt makers, you have no noise. You got you'r, you'r showing people doing things on the screen. Good thing those are part of me, thasnot part of earth. Pretty cool. E hie five, the redwood tree. I look good. This is a good that's my version of allen w

Every time we make an important decision, it’s hard not to wonder how things would have turned out had we chosen differently. The set of all those hypothetical lives is a kind of “multiverse” — not one predicted by quantum mechanics or cosmology, but a space of possibilities that is ripe for contemplation. In their new movie Everything Everywhere All At Once, Daniels (the collective moniker for writer/directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert) use this idea to tell the story of Evelyn (Michelle Yeoh), who is the “worst” of all her avatars in the multiverse. We talk about philosophy, filmmaking, and how we should all strive to be kind amidst the chaos.

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Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert are writers and directors collectively known as Daniels. They met and formed a collaboration while in film school at Emerson College. They have directed a number of music videos for artists such as DJ Snake and Tenacious D. Their first feature film was Swiss Army Man, starring Daniel Radcliffe.

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