Hi and welcome to the Team Deakin's podcast. This podcast is a dialogue between Roger and

James Deakin's often joined in the conversation by a guest. It's very informal and we never

know where it will go. We're connecting through Zoom so bear that in mind when you hear

the audio.

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Today, we have a special guest. He's a partner and literary agent at United Talent Agency,

UTA. He represents filmmakers, actors and writers, including the co-in brothers Wes Anderson,

you and McGregor, John Stewart, and David Mackenzie. We're very pleased to have Rich

Klubik with us today. Rich, thank you for doing this.

Thanks for having me. Hi Rich.

We want to start out. Our normal question is how did you get to where you are today? Did

you take another path, which I know you did, and how did you end up where you are today?

I'll try to keep it short. I would say even at one sound short because I will say that

it started as a theater usher in high school. That's really, and frankly, it's still one

of the great jobs I've had in my life. So good that I worked at two different theaters

once during high school for three years, and then after my first year of college, I think

that's maybe where I learned to really love movies where you'd watch the same movie a hundred

times and start to appreciate movies in a different way than you might once through

and watch certain scenes. But that's not exactly the path I took. I went to law school

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