Neurotic Filmmaker Barry Sonnenfeld

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🗓️ 24 March 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Director Barry Sonnenfeld (The Addams Family, Men in Black, Get Shorty) talks recalls his first gig out of film school as a cameraman for adult films, working with Joel and Ethan Coen on their debut picture Blood Simple, and why you never want to receive a cake on a Coen Bros movie. Barry discusses his difficulties working with Penny Marshall on Big, how Rob Reiner taught him about something called “the silent schmuck,” and why he and Danny Devito had such a hard time convincing a studio to make Get Shorty. He talks about his fight with Larry David over who is the most neurotic person on the planet, his astounding ability to beat any celebrity at leg wrestling, and his secret to making children cry on camera. Plus what it is like to work with Will Smith and bunch of Confederate Civil War reenactors, Eleanor Roosevelt Jokes, and more. Order Barry's new book Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother: Memoirs of a Neurotic Filmmaker on Amazon, Audible or wherever books are sold. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:10.0	Director Barry Sunnfeld has often wondered if he died multiple times and managed in every incident
1:16.4	to move to a different multiverse. One where instead of dying, he miraculously lived on in a world
1:22.5	exactly like the one he previously lived in, except his father managed to avoid a head-on collision
1:28.3	with a tractor trailer. Barry wasn't killed by muggers on 14th Street and 5th Avenue.
1:33.6	He didn't die when his plane crashed at Van Is airport, and most recently, the LK hit,
1:39.4	doing 70 miles an hour on I-80, 40 miles east of North Platne, Nebraska, didn't kill him.
1:46.1	Or maybe there are no multiple universes, and he's just very lucky.
1:51.2	These are the kind of things that the director of the Adams family get shorty and the men
1:55.3	in black movies ponders in life, and in his new book, Barry Sunnfeld, call your mother,
2:01.2	memoirs of a neurotic filmmaker. And today Barry joins me on the show to talk about his
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