Atlanta’ is Wild West-y – every corner of the city is trying to get by under its own rules. There’s no single narrative. At the outer edges, the overgrown parking lots and project blocks, the city is a few yards away from apocalypse, and if you slow down, it could engulf you. Hiro Murai Read Quote
A TV show has to be a certain length and, you know, you have expectations from the viewers. You know, you want to see the characters again, or you want to see certain dynamics between the characters or certain kinds of storylines. And you kind of figure out how to best fit what you want to say into that format. Hiro Murai Read Quote
We always talk about how, obviously, there is still very in-your-face aggressive racism. But there’s a lot of passive racism that, in the moment, you don’t even realize is racist. You chalk it up as a strange interaction you had, and then you look at the context of it later on and realize the root of it was racism. Hiro Murai Read Quote
I’ve never been robbed in person, but I’ve gotten my car broken into a couple of times. Hiro Murai Read Quote
The weird thing about having an alligator on set is that you can’t be in the direct line of sight, or they might start charging at you. Hiro Murai Read Quote
Most of the time, I can’t listen to the song after the video’s done. Sometimes I’ll hear a song that I’ve worked on at a restaurant or on the radio, and I’ll have this visceral physical reaction. Hiro Murai Read Quote
Directing action scenes is really just pure visual storytelling that just makes sense to me pretty intuitively. Hiro Murai Read Quote
