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The Bill Simmons Podcast

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The Hardest Documentaries to Make

A lot of documentaries now that I even I've seen a theater sometimes seem closer to what used to be how documentaries were kind of presented on television. The ones that did work in some ways were superior because it was closer to conventional filmmaking. Whereas they're where, you know, where now it's so easy to make a documentary that is often just like a person sitting there talking. Those are the fucking hardest ones to make. That is like a particular crazy skill set that only a few people have.

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