It was a wonderful thing for me to be able to shoot the reality because they looked at all the reference

and the art department had done an incredible job and Ruth had found things like when they

hoisted the gadget and the tower, they put mattresses underneath it in case it fell.

And I was like, well, we got to put that in the film. I mean, it's so representative the Directors' Guild of America.

In honor of the 76th annual DGA Awards, we're bringing back our annual series of episodes devoted to our popular Meet the nominees Theatrical Feature Film Symposium.

The event is a roundtable discussion with the directors nominated for the Guild's Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement and Theatrical Feature Film.

This year's nominees included Greta Gerwig, the director of Barbie, Jorgos Lanthamos, the

director of Poor Things, Christopher Nolan, the director of Oppenheimer, Alexander Payne, the director

of the holdovers, and Martin Scorsese, the director of Killers of the Flower Moon. These talented

directors gathered on stage at the Guild's Los Angeles Theater on February 10th

to discuss the craft of directing and the making of their films with moderator Jeremy Kagan.

So please enjoy Part 1 of our Meet the Nominees Theatrical Feature Films special. We are so fortunate to have these amazingly talented directors all be with us today,

right here there, Marty. This morning I was looking at some images

by William Blake, and he said that imagination is not a state. It is the essence of human existence

itself.

And you, five, are inspiring sculptors of imagination.

And to pick a line from your movies, all of you show us and see worlds beyond what we really live in.

And we thank you for your creativity.

It's just amazing.

And now to get serious into process,

because you know this is an audience of directors

and directorial teams,

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