ARRAY: Filmmaker Ava DuVernay (2021)

Hey, it's Guy here, and before we get to the show, you know that feeling when you think back to some of your early work and you cringe? Well, I recently spoke with Tom Hanks, and he told me he gets that feeling too. He can't even watch his own movies. And for a man widely known as the nicest person in Hollywood, Tom Hanks also struggles with what it means to be authentic. Check out our conversation on my other podcast, The Great Creators. Just search for The Great Creators with Guy Raz, wherever you listen to podcasts. And now for today's show, another great conversation with a creator and a builder, one of the most successful in Hollywood. It's from twenty twenty one, and I think you're gonna love this one. Any filmmaker that's in

A screening of their films not watching the film, they're watching the audience. Yeah. So you're watching the backs of heads. I've become really good at wa watching the backs of heads. Like I can tell what you're feeling by your neck at this point. And For the first time being in the back of a theater?

Watching, you know, just the side view of the light of the screen hit people's faces as they smile, as they nod. As they cry, whatever. That feeling just Yeah. It was my first hit and I was addicted and I've been addicted ever since.

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