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Joseph Kosinski

Joseph Kosinski (born May 3, 1974) is an American television commercial and feature film director best known for his computer graphics and computer generated imagery work. He made his big-screen directorial debut with the Disney Digital 3-D science fiction film Tron: Legacy, the sequel to the 1982 film Tron. His previous work has primarily been with CGI related television commercials including the "Starry Night" commercial for Halo 3 and the award-winning "Mad World" commercial for Gears of War.

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I grew up in a place where no one knew anyone in the entertainment business, I never knew it was an actual career.

Actual, Business, Career, Careers, Entertainment, Grew Up

Technology can do amazing things for us. It's something we need to keep an eye on.

Amazing, Eye, Needs, Technology

Well the only reason to go back, for me and I think for anyone involved would be if we could do something truly spectacular. We've been talking about it for a couple years and there's always been this idea, a big idea, in the back of my head that we've been talking about.

Back, Big, Couple, Talking, Think, Thinking

When I was in architecture school, rather than giving us drafting boards and t-squares and lead pencils and stuff they gave us all the same tools that places like Digital Domain and ILM used to make features films or special effects. They gave us all these digital tools like Alias and Mya and Soft Image and all these kind of high-end computers, so I came out of architecture school knowing how to use all that stuff. And I started making short films at night.

Features, Giving, Knowing, Night, School, Special

I was always looking for a career that could combine my creative interests with my technical side, and it ends up directing films is the perfect combination.

Careers, Perfect, Creative, Films, Ends

I've said it would have to be our Empire Strikes Back for me to come back and for me to pull the whole team back together. I think we do have that idea. We do have the idea that feels big and really blows the doors off this franchise. It's hinted at promises of something for two movies now, for thirty years, so it's time to deliver on that.

Blow, Empire, Team, Thinking, Together, Whole

But I grew up in a place where no one knew anyone in the entertainment business, I never knew it was an actual career. The closest I ever got to movies was going to watch them, and I thought that's the way it would be, so I never considered working in this business.

Actual, Careers, Closest, Grew, Watches, Would Be

Disney's clearly in the business of doing giant tent pole movies based on properties that they own. And that's what they should be doing because they're great at doing that.

Clearly, Giant, Giants, Pole, Should, Tents

As a director, if you know what you want, then it's not scary.

Director, Directors, Know, Scary, Want

I heard, one of my producers told me this story where like the Hollywood studios brought all these high-end consultants in to try to figure out how to improve their process and make films more efficiently, and these consultants like studied the process for years and finally came up with this report they put together about how studios can improve the efficiency of their process, and the conclusion was "have the script ready by the time you're shooting.

Process, Producers, Script, Together, Trying, Years

I'm a huge electronic-music fan.

Electronic Music, Fan, Fans, Huge

Listen, whatever makes the movie better. That's the attitude you have to have.

Attitude, Listen, Movie

I love movies that ask big questions but don't necessarily answer everything. I like people walking out thinking about something.

Thinking, People, Movie Love, Like, Love

Of course there are always exceptions, but opinions are not to be feared.

Courses, Exception, Exceptions, Feared, Opinion, Opinions

It's a fine line to find that balance: to show people enough to give them the promise of something unique, and something they want to see, but at the same time make sure that when they show up for the movie, they're surprised by what they eventually get.

Unique, People, Giving, Movie, Enough

You won't believe how many people have congratulated me around the world for shooting a movie in 2D. It's bizarre. It's the strangest thing.

Believe, Bizarre, People, Shooting, Strangest, Thing

Sometimes with these things all the pieces fall into place. I mean, we've been talking about this for years and we don't have the script now, but sometimes things fall into place very quickly, and if everything lines up it could happen.

Fall, Lines, Mean, Place, Script, Talking

Certainly there's pressure while your making the movie.

Making, Movie, Pressure

The commercial music video industry is very hard to break into, and until you break in, that first job is the hardest thing in the world to get.

Commercial, Commercial Music, Job, Jobs, Thing, Video

Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.

Architect, Architecture, Design, Littles, School, Studio

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