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Today, we're speaking with a production designer. His list of credits is long and includes

field of dreams, the Truman show or brother wear out though. Jarhead, Skyfall, and Blade Runner

2049 were pleased to welcome Dennis Gassner with us today. Dennis, thank you for doing this.

Hi, Dennis. Thank you.

All right, so we'd like to start with the question, how did you get to where you are today?

What was your path? Did you go down a different path or did you always know you wanted to

do this? Let us know.

Interesting. I studied to be an architect and a friend of mine said there's a film you

should go see and I went to it and it was called Lawrence of Arabia and I said, now that's

bigger than any building that I will ever build. And there was something about the scope

and the inclusive aspect of that film that was so stimulating to me and it still has

been. And I've been trying to do basically that, you know, my whole career. This is a business

of luck. You know, you get the chances of luck and your tenacity and whatever you're

kind of overall feeling about what life is, you know, and of coming out through the process.

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