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The Fabelmans with Steven Spielberg and Paul Thomas Anderson (Ep. 388)

The Director’s Cut - A DGA Podcast

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The Movie Camera and the Bully

I was fine in Phoenix but Northern California got really really tough for me and I just know that my movie camera was both my way in to acceptance and also could be used as a defensive weapon it could be something I could use to get myself either heard or noticed. So when the situation was all true the thing with the bully and what happened um you know I wasn't doing it to make him emotional I was doing it so this anti-Semite just once at the end of the school year can just say hey I liked your film or hey thanks and walk away he ran out after bursting into tears. But instead a whole other turn happened which to this day mystifies me to this day I

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