Pushkin.

But I also feel like in order to get better at storytelling I have to like keep living a life alongside it and I have to like push myself to have

adventures and to leave Los Angeles I think it's very important to leave LA because

LA becomes something of its own thought bubble,

especially this industry and its demands

and what it thinks is interesting.

Los Angeles as a whole feels very much

like a heat seeking missile to me,

and the center of that is like constantly moving around and

all that feels like a bit of a distraction and I feel like I have to constantly try to rip myself out of that focus and be like okay now I'm going to go over here and spend time researching this or understanding this or getting to know these people and

otherwise I think at some point if you stop

living a life a life of risk and failure and and adventure and alongside your

storytelling life eventually your storytelling

storytelling becomes only about the art of storytelling.

That was Britt Marling.

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I've said it before on the show and I also mentioned it in the conversation you're about to hear, but having people on that I have a familiarity with, a friendship with, is always very challenging and nerve-wracking to me.

I would much rather do a Vincent Tenofrio, Norman Lear, I don't know you at all kind of situation over having someone

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