Magnus Martens

I grew up on a small island in the fjords of Norway – not the exactly the center of the universe, but we had an endless stream of movies available to us on VHS from the video store. The guy behind the counter wasn´t too hung up on what age we were, so my upbringing was a pretty unhealthy diet of horror, action, thrillers and weird comedies. I grew up on American pop-culture, but living at a safe distance from America gave me a different perspective and sensibility on how to approach storytelling and filmmaking, I think. 

A show where you come in and do one or two episodes is such a good and fun experience, because a tv-show is like a family. You come in from the outside and join a warm, welcoming family of people who loves the show they are working on. There's of course never enough time or money on any show, but there is already a machinery up and running, so the process is normally pretty smooth and despite the pace you have to work in, you get to do a lot of interesting things. A movie is different, as you set up everything from scratch to hopefully make the machinery work smoothly really quickly so that you can do all the things you dream of doing for the movie. In terms of pure story-telling, the difference between TV and a movie, is of course that in TV one episode is just part of a bigger story, but when making a movie, you are telling the whole story. So you have to think very differently. I love both formats and will continue to work in both!  

I think it would be pretty helpful if fewer decision-makers on top of the food chain were white male a**holes who´s more interested in power and abusing it, than the actual filmmaking.