00:00 "Something I've heard you say on Barbie, which is that your motto was 'drive it like you stole it.'
00:04 Can you explain that?"
00:05 This THR news story is presented by Neom. The Hollywood Reporter is unveiling their
00:15 director's roundtable in their latest episode of Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter.
00:19 The latest roundtable, hosted by Yvonne Orji, is set to air on Sundance TV
00:24 and features Blitz Bozzavule of The Color Purple, Bradley Cooper of Maestro, Ava DuVernay of Origin,
00:31 Greta Gerwig of Barbie, Todd Haynes of May/December, and Michael Mann of Ferrari,
00:36 who all join THR's Rebecca Keegan at the table.
00:39 "Everybody said no to Maestro. Yeah, every studio passed."
00:42 "This isn't the kind of film that you take to a studio and say,
00:45 'Can you give me millions of dollars to make a story about a woman who's going through a trauma?'"
00:49 "We had 23 days to shoot the movie. Throughout, the challenge was,
00:54 'How do you not be redundant?'"
00:56 During their hour-long sit-down, the group chat about everything from bringing the director's
01:00 vision to life and diving into a scene to being inspired by each other's work.
01:05 "Michael is the reason that I thought that I could become a filmmaker. Michael Mann. I was a
01:11 publicist on his film Collateral. And just watching him being on that set as a young publicist made me
01:19 think, 'Wait, he's shooting with Black and brown people in Black and brown communities with cameras
01:24 that are fat. I'm going to look into this.'" Off-script with The Hollywood Reporter brings
01:28 the film industry's top creatives together for inspiring and surprising conversations.
01:33 Be sure to tune in on Sunday, January 7th for the full episode on Sundance TV
01:38 and Monday, January 8th on THR.com and YouTube.
01:42 For the latest roundtables and awards season coverage, keep watching The Hollywood Reporter
01:47 News.
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