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Everyone has expectations. You just don't want to have them dashed, so you're quiet about them.
Josh Radnor
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Josh Radnor
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: July 29
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Columbus
Ohio
Joshua Thomas Radnor
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An obsessive attention to the news, I've realized, only serves to paint a picture of the world as a throbbing blob of dysfunction, most news falling somewhere on a scale from disappointing to calamitous.
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Each film is difficult, in its own particular way. There's a unique set of challenges on every movie.
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To write a story about New York that only deals with people in your age and socioeconomic bracket, that feels dishonest to me. So much of New York comes from everyone bumping into each other.
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When I write a film, there's a particular thing I am wrestling with and the question or concern I'm dealing with has to be big enough for me to dedicate a year or two of my life. If the question isn't big enough, or rich enough, I'll lose interest.
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And so, however many people watch this thing, that's how many different opinions there will be about it. But I don't feel like it has an agenda in terms of its ideology. It just presents a story like a mirror. It's a mirror more than it is than a distorted mirror.
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