Sarah Polley's 'Stories We Tell,' James Ponsoldt's 'The Spectacular Now,' Destin Daniel Cretton's 'Short Term 12' - these are really important movies.

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  I love being on a movie set.

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  A novel is both a story and a piece of writing. A movie is a story and a piece of filmmaking.