But it turned out to be correct for his character because he would hold it back.

There's no space for him to grieve in that household.

That's why he had to leave.

That's why he had to do it through his creativity because he never had space to grieve

even as a little boy in his household.

So then what I go to Paul in that moment is that the great Francis McDormand taught me,

give us the simplest note, the least amount of words possible.

Half. Hello and welcome back to the Director's Cut, brought to by the Directors Guild of America.

In honor of the 78th 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 in Theatrical Feature Film.

This year's nominees included Paul Thomas Anderson, the director of one battle after another.

Ryan Coogler, the director of Sinners.

Guillermo del Toro, the director of Frankenstein.

Josh Safdi, the director of Marty Supreme.

And Chloe Zhao, the director of Hamnet.

These talented directors gathered on stage at the Guild's Los Angeles Theater on February 7th to discuss the craft of directing and the making of their films with moderator Jeremy

Kagan. So please enjoy part two of our Meet the Nominees Theatrical Feature Film Special and listen to our five nominees conclude their discussion.

Our question, when you want to adjust a performance, when you've seen something and you felt it and you feel that there's something

else that can be done what's the language what's the process and paul this may may not happen

at all or it may happen every now and then then you have to say you want to say you know if you

did this what's how do you adjust if you want to change something you're

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