If you obey a note, you're going to screw up your film.

When I'm arguing about a note, I'm not rejecting it.

I'm trying to process it so that therefore it comes out and it's a part of the whole storytelling.

Art is not about obeying.

It doesn't work that way.

If you find one moment of truth and you create that one moment of truth,

that is the barometer going forward and backwards from that moment that you must use as a guide. Hello, and welcome back to the Directors' Cut, brought to you by the Directors Guild of America.

In this episode, a 1960s gay civil rights activist organizes the march on Washington in director George C. Wolf's biographical drama, Rustin.

The film tells the true story of Bayard Rustin, an advisor to Martin Luther King Jr., who dedicated his life to the quest for racial equality, human rights, and worldwide democracy. However, as an openly gay black man,

he is all but erased from the civil rights movement he helped to build. In addition to Rustin,

Wolf's other directorial credits include the feature films

You're Not You and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and episodes of the series Great Performances

and American Playhouse.

He received the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television

for his 2006 TV movie Lackawanna Blues

and was nominated in the same category for 2017's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

Following a screening of the film at the DGA Theater in Los Angeles,

Wolf spoke with director Reynaldo Marcus Green about filming Rustin.

Listen on for their spoiler-filled conversation.

Well, thank you all for being here.

Let's give another round of applause to George.

Thank you very much.

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