A film set is all about hierarchy, but I always like to think about the circus. In the circus, there’s this real sense of tribalism, and they’re all on the road together. I don’t think the ring leader is more important than the clown. They all work together, and I think that I felt that on ‘The East.’ Zal Batmanglij Read Quote
When I call ‘Action,’ I love to be surprised. And the actors I’ve been fortunate enough to work with always surprise me in the best ways. Zal Batmanglij Read Quote
That’s the key thing I learned from making ‘The East’: It doesn’t matter what happens in your life, good or bad. What matters is that there’s a group around you to catch you when you fall and push you back up a little bit. Zal Batmanglij Read Quote
The beauty of Netflix is, their job is to put stories out there, and not stories that appeal to everybody, which is maybe NBC’s job? Zal Batmanglij Read Quote
