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“When you’re shooting a film, you can convince yourself that death does not exist.”
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The quote describes filmmaking as a space where death can feel unreal because it is being staged and captured as an image. While shooting, the people involved can temporarily treat death as something created for the scene rather than a present reality. “Convince yourself” suggests this is a temporary belief, not a denial that death exists outside the film.
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