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00:00I always sort of joke, you know, we write out a treatment where you think this is like how you're
00:03going to tell your story, you know, based on talking to people, knowing people, especially
00:07when you're doing stories which are so much in the past, which I guess I've been doing a lot lately,
00:11and I always sort of will go back and look at that after we finish, and inevitably it's like
00:17completely wrong, right? So I say that to preface that you go in with the best of intentions of
00:23knowing exactly what every story should stand to or why you're using it, and I think, you know,
00:28half the time, if I'm right half the time, I feel pretty good, and then I think sometimes
00:31you realize that something that sounded really good or that you thought was really poignant in
00:36an interview really doesn't land on screen, or that three people told the same kind of story,
00:40and you really only need that story once, and so it's a process, but I definitely think that
00:47you want to sort of start with a structure and then kind of you pick that apart as you go forward,
00:53as you learn new things, and I guess one thing about the kind of work I think I've tended to
00:58do is when it's more investigative in nature or you're dealing with, you know, uncovering things,
01:02people are going to be in and out of your process. They're going to say they want to do it,
01:06and they're going to be out, or they're going to get afraid, and then you have to figure out
01:09what do you actually have access to to tell that part of a story, and so it's like do you
01:15have the archive? How can you use it? You know, all those sorts of questions.