143. Zach Braff: Making A Movie is Like Throwing A Wedding

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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This week filmmaker and actor Zach Braff joins Mike to talk everything from Garden State to Ted Lasso to what it’s like to direct Morgan Freeman. Zach discusses the story of his ex once following him through Europe and Mike and Zach discuss the possibility that a story like that could be the starting point for a one person show. Plus, the time Zach got too drunk and excused himself from a Rush concert to take New Jersey Transit home. Please consider donating to: https://www.midnightmission.org/

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0:00.0	I was thinking today about how you are one of two people, Matt Damon being the other one,
0:05.0	where when your movie came out, his was Goodwill Hunting and yours was Garden State,
0:10.0	where I was, had immediate resentment.
0:14.3	Yeah.
0:15.3	Because in both cases you wrote the movie,
0:17.4	starred in the movie, and great movie.
0:21.2	And I, as an aspiring filmmaker in both instances
0:25.6	had the, why not me?
0:29.4	Yeah, I understand.
0:30.3	And it's weird because then sometimes you go
0:32.2	and years later, you know, I made a couple movies and working on my next one and you go like
0:36.5	Yeah, it has nothing to do with me if anything it should be inspirational. Oh yeah people can get movies made for a small budget.
0:43.4	I think that's very hard in the community we're in because it's so competitive and it's so
0:48.4	hard.
0:49.4	There's a quote I heard.
0:51.3	I was accredited to me that it was Stephen Spielberg.
0:53.9	I have no idea if it is, but I always remembered it
0:56.6	and is in Hollywood, people want you to do well,
0:59.2	but they don't want you to do that well.
1:00.4	That's great. That is the voice of the great Zach Braff.
1:07.0	We are so excited to have Zach Braff on the show.
1:12.0	You might know him from Scrubs, from Garden State, which he wrote, directed, and starred in.
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