Hiro Murai

If artists do have ideas, they're often not great.

— Hiro Murai

I've always preferred being behind the camera.

— Hiro Murai

'Atlanta' changes genres a lot per episode.

— Hiro Murai

I'm a first-generation Japanese immigrant.

— Hiro Murai

I've loved music all my life.

— Hiro Murai

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

— Hiro Murai

I'm one of those people who keep a dream journal.

— Hiro Murai

'Twin Peaks' was my gateway for David Lynch.

— Hiro Murai

Directing action scenes is really just pure visual storytelling that just makes sense to me pretty intuitively.

— Hiro Murai

Too many things are possible in a dream. It's most interesting when you don't know which space you're in.

— Hiro Murai

I just want to do things on my own terms as much as possible.

— Hiro Murai

I like shooting locations just because too much control on the stage can be a bad thing.

— Hiro Murai

Obviously the actors are incredible at being the audience surrogates in this crazy universe.

— Hiro Murai

I usually work in music videos, where we shoot, like, 10 to 12 setups and 60 shots or something.

— Hiro Murai

I grew up listening to hip hop and embracing black culture, probably because it was 'outsider art.'

— Hiro Murai

Most of the time, I'm a little bewildered or sort of feel out of place.

— Hiro Murai

Whenever you're making something, you're hoping that it connects with somebody in some big way, but I'd have to be crazy to…

— Hiro Murai

For me, I don't have a grand vision planned or an end goal. I'm just exploring what's given to me at any…

— Hiro Murai

I remember, when 'Atlanta' first happened, I didn't know what to expect. It felt like it was a lot of responsibility.

— Hiro Murai

Whether it's a TV show or a music video, the seed of the idea is what's driving my decisions, not the format…

— Hiro Murai

A lot of my personality and my affinity for certain pieces of pop culture and art all stem from a sort of…

— Hiro Murai

A lot of the music video stuff I've worked on is mostly me pitching ideas, and then if [the artists] have notes…

— Hiro Murai

FX is a network; that's their whole model, letting creators make the thing they want to make and then marketing it really…

— Hiro Murai

I just got a Filmstruck account so I can watch all of those Criterion movies streaming. I've been nerding out about that.

— Hiro Murai

I'm a fan of the mythos of Atlanta hip-hop, and it's something I grew up imagining. It was very interesting to get…

— 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

'Atlanta' is Wild West-y - every corner of the city is trying to get by under its own rules. There's no single…

— Hiro Murai

A TV show has to be a certain length and, you know, you have expectations from the viewers. You know, you want…

— 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'm a firm believer in the idea that once we make a thing and release it, my turn to talk is done.…

— Hiro Murai

We always talk about how, obviously, there is still very in-your-face aggressive racism. But there's a lot of passive racism that, in…

— Hiro Murai

I love museums, but I always thought there was something funny about a group of strangers silently staring at works of inanimate…

— Hiro Murai

I never thought of myself as a TV director.

— Hiro Murai

I used to be terrified of heights as a kid.

— Hiro Murai

I'm an immigrant, and I think being an outsider in your home is something that I really relate to.

— Hiro Murai

I think music videos in particular and film in general - it's really good at communicating tone and feeling.

— Hiro Murai

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

— Hiro Murai

As an Asian guy, I would love to see a big blockbuster with Asian lead characters.

— Hiro Murai

A lot of people who make films in my generation have the vocabulary of all the films they've seen before.

— Hiro Murai

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

— Hiro Murai