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As a solo artist and as frontman for The Frames, Dublin native Glen Hansard has been Everybody Loves Raymond Box Set in the music business since he was a teenager, but he only dabbled in cinema once, in 1991′s The Commitments. Not liking the attention that came with film fame, he avoided cinema projects until 2006, when former Frames member John Carney asked him to write the songs for a low-key love story—and then star in it, when planned star Cillian Murphy dropped out. Made on a shoestring, Once Walt Disneys 100 Years Of Magic became a critics’ darling and a surprise arthouse hit. It’s a raw, tender love story in which Hansard plays a character much like himself: a Dublin street musician singing his own songs, and collaborating, sometimes painfully, with real-life partner Markéta Irglová. To commemorate the film’s DVD release, Hansard spoke to The A.V. Club about guerilla filmmaking, how stardom steals the soul, and Walt Disneys 100 Years Of Magic sneaking in the back door at Sundance.

We first collaborated some five, six years ago—I was American Dad Box Set making some home recordings. I know Mar’s father, he’s a friend of mine. And he invited me to stay over at their house to write some songs. I went over and stayed two or three weeks there, and made a bunch of home recordings. And because Mar played piano, we got her to jam along—which was kinda weird for her, because, though she’s a really good pianist, she only ever did music that she read. But I got her to play through these tunes, I got her The Ateam Box Set to sort of jam along. And I remember, she was listening to one of these tunes and she was like, Glen, what you’re singing about here, did this really happen to you? And I was like, Well, sort of Primeval Box Set. Poetic license, it didn’t happen exactly— So this didn’t happen to you.

Well, it did, but not exactly— So did it happen to you, or not? Well,So why are you saying it did? Well, I was Stargate Atlantis Box Set just trying to make a point, maybe I’m exaggerating a little bit maybe,And I remember at that point realizing that this girl was fucking brilliant—she was totally questioning what I was doing, but what was wonderful was that she was listening. I mean, the guys in my band, they know me very well, but they still don’t know what some of these songs refer to. But she was actually listening to what I was saying, and she was kind of challenging me on it. And then I listened to 30 Rock Box Set some of her songs, and I thought, This girl, she knows what she’s on about.Everything. Well, everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking. The one thing I didn’t learn about was mic technique, which is no big deal—you can learn Prison Break Box Set that in half an hour.

Busking, you learn people, you learn about Curb Your Enthusiasm Box Set reading people. You learn about reading the atmosphere of the street. You get a sense for things. It was mostly improv. John wrote a really good script, but we all improvised, including John. I think what makes improv possible is when the director is willing to improv, and he was. That’s what made it work for me The Vampire Diaries Box Set and Mar. I mean, we were just hanging out. We were basically just three mates making a movie in our bedroom—it was a very, very, very simple process. The one thing that we did do was, before we shot Once, we sat down dexter dvd and watched a bunch of films, and we got really excited about cinema.