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Director Ryan Coogler said he couldn't get distracted by technology while filming his latest project. "It plays into your basic human instinct...so I try to stay away from it," he said.
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00:00Anticipation for this film is probably the biggest of any, you know, coming out this year.
00:05And I'm curious for you, you know, how do you silence that pressure in your creative process, or does it factor in at all?
00:11The easiest way to silence any, like, external pressures for me is to just stay away from technology.
00:19You know, like, give myself a break from it, you know?
00:24We got these phones, they got, like, everything, you know, everything at your disposal, and they play into, it plays into, like, our human, our basic human instincts.
00:35They're like, hey, what are they saying about what we're doing? What are they saying about me? You know what I'm saying?
00:39And with technology, you can actually check and see, you know, like, or, you know, so I try to just, like, stay away from it so I can focus.
00:48And then when the work gets going, you don't got time to look, you know?
00:51So, so, so, so, um, but yeah, like, like, managing, managing the technology, I think, is a big, is a big thing.
00:57I don't got, I personally don't have social media for all those reasons, you know?
01:01Yeah.
01:02Um, because I think it could, I think it could affect, it's no way, it's no way it wouldn't affect the work if I was, if I was in there.
01:08So I just try to, try to stay away from it.
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