Welcome back to the director's cut, a podcast by the Directors Guild of America,

featuring today's top directors sharing behind-the-scenes stories of their latest films

and insights into the craft of directing.

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Today, we're bringing you a panel discussion from the DGA Special Projects Committee's recent webinar event, a conversation with episodic television directors, how inspiration fuels the art of directing.

Last month, directors Michelle McLaren, David Nutter, Ken Whittingham, and Jessica You

participated in a lively conversation, moderated by DGA past president Paris Barclay,

where they delved into who and what inspires them to continue topping themselves artistically

on series such as The Morning Show, Game

of Thrones, Atypical, Fosse Verdon, and Station 19.

Other topics of discussion included who they admired when first starting out, what keeps

them going during the COVID-19 pandemic-inspired production hiatus, and how they expect their work and their process might

change in the future.

Thank you all.

Welcome to our second special project's webinar via Zoom.

We'd like to get into our panel today, but because it is the elephant in the world, I want to

assure you that the things that

are happening in our world today are going to have a profound effect on what we do and how we do.

So we're going to spend some time talking about that towards the end of our broadcast.

So as this is Blackout Tuesday, we also want to let you know that we are not working today.

We are sharing with our members.

We are creating a community. And we're reinforcing some of the values that we believe in, that the DJ believes in

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