Love Is A Luxury. It's Something That

Love Is A Luxury. It's Something That People Are Allowed To Indulge In When They're Not Simply Trying To Survive And Keep Other People Alive.

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You Learn To Exploit Genre For The More Important Things - To My Mind - Like Story, Character, Image, Language.

My Work Is To Know The Characters Intimately And To Tell Their Story.

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