Dan Attias, Director, Producer and Author: Isn’t it true that the record shows that? Can’t you acknowledge that you’re going to wound her again just in the same way you’ve heard all these witnesses testify? The many ways she has been wounded even though your intentions now are good. Isn’t it inevitable you will?
It’s emotional for me recounting that because to me it got to a level of cracking open a deeper layer of what happens between human beings. What’s true human behavior? Obviously all human behavior is true in a certain sense and human beings are capable and they’re doing it but when they’re acting out of defenses, when they’re acting out of self-protection, out of strategizing, it’s a different order of authenticity. What’s the core below? That’s what I’m always thirsting for, that’s what gives me such joy when we can reach that place in directing anything and I think there’s so many more opportunities than people may think. My career is basically directing existing franchises, coming into stories that are already kind of structured and shaped and characters are kind of in place. But I always regard it as an opportunity, okay but let’s look at the unique circumstances of this particular episode, of this particular situation and what would make me compelled by what’s going on. It’s not changing anything necessarily and other than the fact that it’s…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
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BIO:
Dan Attias has worked as a director in the film and television industry for 37 years. As a director of series television he has received the Directors Guild of America award for outstanding direction of dramatic television and has been nominated for multiple Emmy awards for his comedy directing. He continues to work on some of the most celebrated and critically acclaimed American television shows, including Homeland, The Americans, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Billions, and The Boys. Previously he has directed The Sopranos, The Wire, Six Feet Under, True Blood, Entourage, The Killing, The Walking Dead, True Detective, Ray Donovan, Bloodline, Friday Night Lights, Northern Exposure, House, Lost, Alias, among many others. His first professional directing assignment was the feature film, Stephen King’s Silver Bullet, produced by Dino DeLaurentiis. Dan started his career studying acting, then worked as an assistant director on E.T. The Extraterrestrial, Airplane!, One From the Heart and several other feature films. He has taught acting and directing workshops in the United States, and has appeared as a guest speaker at festivals in Italy, Brazil, Greece, Mexico and Canada. Before working in the film and television industry, Dan was enrolled in a Ph.D. program in English literature at U.C.L.A., then transferred to the Theater Arts Department where he earned an M.F.A. in film production.
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