My whole career I'm up and down and depressed and exhilarated and and I'm happy and I'm sad and I'm always confused.

Prepare your ears, humans. Happy, sad, confused, begins now.

I'm Josh Horowitz and today on Happy, Sad, Confused, it's a horror master. No, no, no, it's a stoner comedy king.

No, no, no, it's an indie drama stalwart. Never mind, it's all of them in one package.

It's the director of the exorcist believer, David Gordon Green on Happy, Sad, Confused, somehow for the very first time.

Hey, David, how's it going? It's going good and I think your podcast describes me well.

So it's here and among, among others, you're in the white void. I'm speaking to you, you died apparently, very apropos for, for exorcist you have passed into the great beyond.

Yeah, I'm enjoying it so far. I'm a lot of revelations and I'm right here, but I'm also right behind you, so.

Oh gosh, so talk to me. Do you think the exorcist or your highness has more sacrilegious material, which one is going to send you to hell quicker?

I think your highness will send me to hell quicker, but I think believer has more sacrilegious material.

Fair enough. Okay, so we're going to dig into all of it. We have the luxury of time on a podcast like this, obviously, I know your work very well, and I want to contextualize for the audience.

I alluded a little bit to the insane filmography. Look it up for a good, just a good old time to see what David Gordon Green has done and is relatively young career still.

You still have a long way to go, but okay, let me summarize. There was 2000 to 2007. We're going to call the, I don't even know what years are we going to call these, but this was George Washington, all the real girls undertow snow angels.

This is when I first met Mr. David Gordon Green before I knew what depravity lay within him.

Then, then we get, we get our rated comedy, David Gordon Green, pineapple express the sitter, the aforementioned your highness, which I could spend the whole 45 minutes on.

Then we go, we go, maybe a little bit of return to roots, a little Prince of the lunch action, Joe, mangle horn, somehow when they're also is our brand is crisis, the great stronger.

We have some TV shows that we don't even have time to mention Eastbound and down currently righteous gemstones or return to comedy.

And the last seven years of his life, essentially, has been in horror because he needed to switch it up one more time with a trilogy of Halloween films and now at the beginning of a trilogy, presumably of exorcist films.

Did I summarize it? Do we do is your session over David? Is that you?

It's a great job. It's great. You know, what I've, what I've missed is some of the hobbies that I used to have because when your hobby becomes your career, it is a strange thing.

So I haven't been playing near enough music or or climbing near near as many mountains as I would like to, but I've been making a lot of movies and having a ton of fun.

And as you can see, keeping my career curious and colorful as a priority.

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