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The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Barry Sonnenfeld

The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2020

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Filmmaker Barry Sonnenfeld talks with Andy Richter about being the best French horn player in the NYC school system, shooting nine feature-length pornos (in nine days), and jumpstarting his cinematography and directing career with Blood Simple. Plus, Barry shares stories from the development of his new book “Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother”.

Transcript

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Yeah, but the thing about back pain is if it comes and goes, yeah, that implies it's

0:17.5

not a physiological problem, you know, because some days it's bad, some days it's not bad

0:23.3

and you go, why did I have no pain yesterday?

0:26.1

Well that's because I wasn't talking to the studio this morning and there's stupid

0:30.7

idea and suddenly I have back pain and on men in black three, my back pain was so bad

0:37.5

and over Christmas vacation I needed to hire a new writer, the producers wouldn't let

0:43.0

me, it was just a mess and I was on this conference call and I just screamed at them.

0:52.4

And you know what Dr. Sarno says is the reason you have this back pain is your unconscious

0:58.4

mind gives you the pain because you fear that if you express your anger you may really

1:05.2

hurt someone that you love or lose your job.

1:09.0

I screamed at them, hung up the phone and I was Dr. Strange love at the end of Dr. Strange

1:17.1

love, I stood up out of my chair with no pain and I basically said, my fear, I can walk

1:24.3

and I literally all my pain went away and all I needed to do was scream at Sony Pictures

1:31.4

and that's all and the producers and that's that's all it took for until the next big problem.

1:40.6

Well that's the intro to my talk with Barry Sonnefeld with the esteemed director and

1:50.4

producer and cinematographer, Bond Vivant and Rack on Tour.

1:58.5

I worked on a movie you hired me for called Big Trouble which was a lot of fun to make,

2:05.2

a lot of night shoots down in Miami and again and also playing golf with Patrick Warburton

2:11.8

and hearing funny stories about him getting waxed because he needed to eat, there's a stripper

2:19.5

scene at the end of that and he needed to get waxed and I'll leave that for him to tell.

2:25.6

It involves an erection let's just say that.

2:29.7

But I've working with you was you're one of the most fun directors I've ever worked with.

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