"Luis Valdez said it long ago: The beauty and the frustration of theater is it is one permanent long shot…You never get up close in someone’s eyes. And that kind of blew me away (while shooting) a close-up. That was all new storytelling for me, and I had to figure it out on a very fast learning curve."
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On how he transitioned into filmmaking in “Culture Clash’s Richard Montoya becomes a movie multitasker” in The Sacramento Bee (2015 Apr 13)
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