Karyn Kusama: 4/19/16

The Moment with Brian Koppelman

Brian Koppelman & Gemini XIII

Tv & Film

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2016

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Karyn Kusama is the director of four films including the Sundance award winning movie, Girlfight, and the recently released dinner party thriller, The Invitation – available now by clicking here. Today on the show, Karyn talks about the movies that influenced The Invitation (4:00), recognizing the strangeness in great works of art (11:00), and why men are afforded more opportunities than women in the movie making business (26:00). Plus, Brian and Karyn discuss how directing television keeps you creatively fit (38:00), how Karyn checks in with herself about the work she wants to be creating (42:00), and why, in adulthood, she’s finally finding the strength in being a vulnerable human being (53:00). The Moment is brought to you by Monster. Find employees who work as hard as you at Monster.com/hiring. Monster. Find Better. Shownotes: Slate.com/TheMoment Twitter: @BrianKoppelman Review us: itunes.com/themoment To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today's episode is brought to you by Monster.
0:02.8	Find employees who work as hard as you at monster.com slash hiring.
0:07.2	Monster, find better.
0:10.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:13.3	Hey, this is Brian.
0:14.3	Before the show starts, this is not an ad.
0:16.2	I'm really excited to today's guest is Karn Kusama.
0:19.6	And that's really important to me that I'm excited.
0:21.9	As this podcast has grown, I've really hewed hard
0:25.8	to this idea that I'm only gonna have people on
0:27.8	who I really wanna talk to,
0:29.5	who I really wanna have a conversation with.
0:32.0	Whether I wanna interview them or talk to them or exchange
0:34.4	ideas, it's someone whose work or life is super engaging to me. It's the only way that
0:40.5	I can make it engaging to you or make it better than just hearing, reading
0:45.5	their book or listening to their album or watching them in movies.
0:50.0	And I'm finding that the pressures of doing the show every week sometimes make me consider
0:57.5	booking people who might be awesome, incredibly talented, but whose work or life doesn't really resonate with me in a way that I can put in the time and research to have these conversations.
1:12.0	And I respect you. to have
1:15.0	been listening since Grantland or who picked it up from slate and subscribe at
1:21.0	and subscribe at iTunes.
1:22.0	I T iTunes.com
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