What's your relationship with your askers where you put them?

One of them is in China somewhere.

I'm not sure where.

But my dad has it, so it's probably put it somewhere that everyone can see.

The other one, I think it's in storage here.

Hi, I'm Ben Mankowitz.

Welcome to the third season of Talking Pictures, a movie memories podcast brought to you by HBO Max and Turner Classic movies.

We're doing things a bit differently this time, as you can already tell.

If you're watching, we're on video and we're shooting from my home office.

There was a note in here from the producer that I was talking about where I would now gesture and say,

my home office, or maybe my home office.

I don't really know which way looks better on the camera.

So it reminds me the story my brother told me. My brother, Josh Mangwood's correspondent at Dateline NBC, he's been there for 30 years. And he taught me how to be on TV. He's much, much older than I am, much, much older. And one of the things he told me not to do when I was doing a live shot is don't say, at the hospital and then point at the hospital,

which is right behind you.

We know you're at the hospital.

You don't have to point at it.

It's a building.

So anyway, this is my home office.

We're breaking this season of talking pictures into two parts, starting with a mini run of

episodes featuring current Oscar nominees.

My first guest is a two-time Oscar winner,

writer, and director, Chloe Zhao. Chloe's latest movie Hamnet is up for eight Academy Awards,

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