TV Director Insights: 'Task,' 'The Gilded Age' & 'Beef' | The Business | SAG-AFTRA Foundation

“I think we tell stories to try and like excavate these difficult things. And so I try to really like the audition is just kind of talking as humans. Um trying to make sense of our lives and if there's like a frequency that harmonizes as you're talking then you kind of know that this will be very fruitful.”

“Season one's so much about two very lonely people who don't want to participate in life. And so naturally sort of the cinematic language was very like grungy and kind of messy and season two was really about love about marriage over time. Um, so we knew that the the camera work and the aesthetic should feel a little bit more polished, very lush.”

“For someone who is so good at writing it ahead of time, like that's a very very rare thing to find... if an actor says something isn't working, he will sit with them in the moment even with all the pressure of the set and rewrite it until it does.”

“You know how it goes. It's like so you you're doing a normal dialogue scene and there's a focus measurement for wherever the close-up is. So you can always match that on the other side. And traditional quality coverage is they're matched... I was just like, why why do you have to do that all the time? And what would happen? Like if you could kind of start just like making it lean one way or the other.”