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I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.

I'll definitely say that, before film school, I didn't have much of a film-history background. I didn't know much about classic cinema.

I didn't come from a background of films. I didn't even really ever watch films. The fact is, my parents weren't into that stuff, and neither was I.

I didn't really get involved too heavily with being an actual film person.

Being a little bit of a movie buff, the fact that I'm working in the middle of movie history is incredible.

Nothing in my background has anything to do with films. In that sense, I am a complete outsider.

You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.

I didn't know anything about movies or movie stars or the Academy or anything. I was just a blank sheet of paper. I was totally ignorant of all that stuff. I never went to the movies, didn't know anything about the movies.

I'm not sure you learn anything on film sets.

But I didn't know much about directing a movie.