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Well, when the economy knows that I've became a full time freelancer and now I'm pounding the pavement working my movie industry contacts to try and get a job in Hollywood. I landed my first freelancer reporting gig. An interview with Zack Snyder, director of the 300 and the upcoming Watchmen. Zack is what the movie industry calls visionary and an auteur. I only have seven minutes with him. I gottaa get the story and pump him for info to launch of my directing career. Watchmen is a graphic novel set in an alternate 1985 America with a plot so complex people have called it unfilmable. It includes everything from superheroes to nuclear war and a murder mystery. See this mysterious black tent. Inside is Watchmen's legendary owl ship where Warner Brothers arranged for me to interview Zack. So, we're in the owl ship which is incredibly detailed. It looks like you guys were painstaking in your creation of his particular set. >> All these things are sort of painstakingly like we produced from the graphic novel >> This is the button she pushes that sets things on fire. >> Yeah, she does it twice, remember? >> Yeah. >> She's kinda of f'in around, there she turns the light on and she hits the fire button. And of course this is all the heads up display Diane's created. >> So I have to imagine this is kind of the ultimate gig for a comic book lover, directing this movie. >> Yeah. That was absolutely. I mean like for me like I say I'm a pretty big fan of the graphic novels so. >> I was hoping, you could tell me how you tackle the idea that Watchmen is unfilmable. >> To be honest, I didn't know that they've called it unfilmable. I was, I had read the graphic novel and everything but I haven't thought of the movie side of it to be honest. And so maybe it's- cause I'm naïve or whatever I just said, oh yeah, this is how we are going to do it. >> So, let's say somebody really, really wanted to get to do what you do for a living. What kind of advice would you give? >> Well, I can only go by my own-- the way I got here, right. >> Uh huh. >> And I made a bunch of TV commercials. >> So, watch a lot of TV. >> I'd say if you watch a lot of TV. >> Like 8 to 10 hours a day. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Then the other thing to do is I made videos too, music videos. In order to get your first videos, you gotta hang out with kinda like bad musicians, kinda, you know, like someone who wouldn't be getting a video because then they'd get someone else to do it. >> Right. >> So some like, your buddies who have a band and they need a video just do their video for them. >> So what is it say on the skill section of your resume like do you-- >> Special skills? >> Yeah, special skills. >> I can throw really good. >> Thank you so much. >> I think you have all the things you need there. >> I think I do. >> I'm excited about your career. >> And I'm gonna follow up with you on all this. >> Yeah, by the way if I think of something I'll call you too. >> Yeah and I may. >> Cause you know what you don't have on there I just realized? >> What? >> You know, I've made two movies out of comic books. So, maybe if you could find like a, you know, like when you chew Bazooka bubblegum, there's comics in there. >> Find some comics. >> Find a comic. >> Fresh. >> Fresh comics or maybe even draw a comic and then film it. >> Wow. >> Drill down on these ideas, if you don't drill down you're not gonna get there. >> Okay. >> Bye guys. >> Bye thanks again. I think that went very well. >> There you have it, unemployed comic book fans which is let's be honest, all of you, we, I mean you too, could get a job directing a $ 100 million adaptation of a beloved graphic novel simply buy, watching a lot of TV, writing your own comic book and hanging out with loser musicians. But first, you should go see Zack's movie. Watchmen opens March 6. 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