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🗓️ 21 November 2017
⏱️ 72 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey, this is the moment. I'm Brian Koppelman. Thanks for listening. I'm super excited because |
0:06.7 | Jenna Fisher, multi-hifen it, actor, writer, of, you know know filmed content writer of you wrote a movie and directed a movie |
0:18.6 | an indie movie loosely loosely wrote and directed you can't loosely write and direct something. |
0:24.0 | You either do it or you don't. |
0:26.0 | I'm going to, I'm going to stand with that I loosely wrote it. |
0:30.0 | I had my friends come over, they improvised their roles, then I used the tapes transcribed |
0:36.0 | what they said, which is technically writing it down, but not really like conceiving of it. |
0:42.0 | And then I gave them back their own words that they'd already said |
0:45.5 | and then they unproved more. You didn't just hit the bong when they left and fall |
0:49.5 | asleep though and then have nothing to show for. I transcribed a movie and directed it. |
0:56.4 | I loosely directed it. |
0:58.0 | I'm going to be honest with you. |
0:59.8 | If it wasn't for my editor and camera operator cinematographer Peter Alton, that movie would not exist. |
1:06.6 | He made that in editing. |
1:07.6 | No, no, no, you're supposed to grab all the great things. |
1:10.0 | You're supposed to be like, I did all of it. |
1:11.3 | In fact, secretly I cut it. Peter's name is on it but I really |
1:15.0 | edited it I suppose if I had any ambition to ever write or direct anything again I |
1:20.5 | would be doing that I would be taking all the credit but I don't because what it |
1:25.0 | taught me was this is not for me I'm gonna just be I'm just gonna be an actor yeah |
1:30.0 | that was your yeah that was my takeaway and who knows I don't know that that has to be a permanent thing |
1:34.0 | that you're never going to do that again. |
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