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#71: The Master Creator - How Jon Favreau Went from Swingers to Elf to Ironman to Chef

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The Director's Assistant Is Not Another Director

As an actor, i got to have front row seats for every director that i worked with. So by the time i ever directed, i already had half a dozen directors that i thought were great and half a dozen at i thought weren't great. And being an actor, you're kind of modelling yourself, imitating what the people you respect do. It's tough to get those ten thousand hours under your belt just by going to film school. Swingers was done as cheaply as you possibly could for that quality of a film, and that was almost 200 thousands dollars. But clerks have ben done for, i think, ten thousand, or something ridiculous like that. We ended up making ourselves

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