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Where is the line between a director having a point of view and manipulating the subject? How do you explain the film in your head to a cinematographer who has never met your subject? What do you do when your subject clearly grows tired of being filmed? What do you hand an editor on day one — a rough vision or nothing at all? Following the same family for years — how do you keep the relationship from souring? Directing real people — how do you catch a natural moment without staging it? When your subject asks you to stop filming — where do you draw the line? How much should a director shape the story versus just following what happens? How do you earn enough trust that people forget the camera is there?

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