Hiro Murai famous quotes

I like the idea of reading into people's faces when they're not emoting. Some people are fascinated, some are sympathizing.
-- Hiro Murai

#Reading #Ideas #People

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

#Video #Pieces #Shooting

People have a natural tendency to read emotions out of faces, so when you see a face that is hyperreal but without the life behind the eyes, it's really off-putting and intriguing.
-- Hiro Murai

#Eye #People #Faces

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

#Dream #Might #Favorites Things

I love museums, but I always thought there was something funny about a group of strangers silently staring at works of inanimate objects together. Each person is having a very personal and maybe even emotional experience, but it's in the confines of an extremely quiet and sterile room.
-- Hiro Murai

#Emotional #Museums #Together

I like the feeling of keeping people off-balance and having the audience not knowing where I'm coming from or keeping that mysterious.
-- Hiro Murai

#Knowing #People #Feelings

A lot of the music video stuff I've worked on is mostly me pitching ideas, and then if [the artists] have notes or thoughts, I'll integrate them into the idea.
-- Hiro Murai

#Artist #Ideas #Video

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

#Views #Looks #Stories

At the end of the day, if you don't identify with the main characters, no television show will work.
-- Hiro Murai

#Character #The End Of The Day #Television

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

#Artist #Ideas #Ifs

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

#Dream #Reality #Littles

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

#Crazy #Actors #Incredibles

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

#Dream #Space #Interesting

TV is generally an unfriendly environment for directors because you're expected to come in and tell a story in the voice of the show that already exists, and just fill in the blanks and then submit it back.
-- Hiro Murai

#Voice #Tvs #Directors

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 there and see the real version of this world and then reconcile the differences between what's presented as Atlanta hip-hop to the rest of the world and what the real, breathing version of it is.
-- Hiro Murai

#Real #Breathing #Differences