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'Glass Onion' Director Rian Johnson

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The Structure of a Movie

The structure of the movie is the very first step in terms of cracking the story for me. So, so the first 90% of the process I'll spend in little notebooks just coming up with the story and mapping it all out. And then it's only at the very, very end of the process that I sit down and start typing.

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