Hiro Murai

Your understanding of culture can be very skewed sometimes, depending on what you're taking in!

— Hiro Murai

I thought there was a way of marrying what I wanted to do with filmmaking with pop videos, which I found out…

— Hiro Murai

I'm a first-generation Japanese immigrant.

— Hiro Murai

A lot of weird things happen in life that are not always pertaining to your main objective.

— Hiro Murai

In the case of, like, Childish Gambino, he is someone who is a writer by trade, so he is very meticulous about…

— Hiro Murai

I think a season of 'Atlanta' bounces back between classic sitcom structure and genre movies.

— Hiro Murai

I used to be terrified of heights as a kid.

— Hiro Murai

'Atlanta' changes genres a lot per episode.

— Hiro Murai

I was fortunate to work on a few episodes of 'Barry' right before we shot 'Atlanta.' That was where I got my…

— Hiro Murai

TV is generally an unfriendly environment for directors because you're expected to come in and tell a story in the voice of…

— Hiro Murai

That exact moment when you're about to realize that this might be a dream is my favorite thing.

— Hiro Murai

It's something that I've always been attracted to, that idea of letting everything happen in a single frame.

— Hiro Murai

When we were making 'Teddy Perkins,' we were playing with a lot of horror tropes and things you might've seen in movies…

— Hiro Murai

People have a natural tendency to read emotions out of faces, so when you see a face that is hyperreal but without…

— Hiro Murai

If I were FX, I wouldn't have hired me.

— Hiro Murai

The way I look at stories is often from far outside, like a god's point of view, and also very, very subjective.

— Hiro Murai

Shooting videos with lots of effects is like shooting a bunch of puzzle pieces.

— Hiro Murai

The most difficult thing about music videos is that a lot of young filmmakers come into the medium, and they have so…

— Hiro Murai

I think to truly not know what to expect out of the story - to create a world where nothing is guaranteed…

— Hiro Murai

In Japan, animation is a big part of your media diet. I moved out to Los Angeles at 9, and when I…

— Hiro Murai

Even if an episode is self-contained, the preceding episodes always affect how the audience takes it in.

— Hiro Murai

Even my nighttime dreams are very, very rooted in reality. They just start to become surreal, little by little.

— Hiro Murai

The weird thing about having an alligator on set is that you can't be in the direct line of sight, or they…

— Hiro Murai

I love David Lynch movies, and I like Haruki Murakami books.

— Hiro Murai

Music videos were an outlet. They were the jobs most easily available to me, but creatively, they're also so free form; there…

— Hiro Murai