Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden: 1/5/16

The Moment with Brian Koppelman

Brian Koppelman & Gemini XIII

Tv & Film

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2016

⏱️ 68 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, the filmmaking partners responsible for the movies Half Nelson, Sugar, and Mississippi Grind, look back at how they started making movies, talk about their creative partnership, and discuss their frustration with the amount of people who have watched Mississippi Grind. Plus, the two dissect the decisions they’ve made to keep making independent films and why directing television shows (The Affair, Looking, Billions) can be a scary, vulnerable experience. Topics mentioned: Mississippi Grind, Half Nelson, Sugar, Billions, Buffalo ‘66, “How to Annoy a Fan Base in 60 Easy Steps” by Bill Simmons, Do The Right Thing, She’s Gotta Have It, Goodfellas, First Blood, The Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now, Raising Arizona, Stranger Than Paradise, Slacker, “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Clause” by The Jackson Five, NY 99X Radio Station, Exile in Guyville by Liz Phair, True Lies, Struggle a short film by Ryan Fleck, Creed, Hard Eight, California Split, Gowanus a short film by Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, Out of Sight, The Moment with Scott Rosenberg: 12/22/15 People mentioned: Vincent Gallo, Rick Barry, Spike Lee, Leonard Maltin, Martin Scorsese, Jim Jarmusch, Richard Linklater, Emily Dickinson, James Cameron, Grant Heslov, Ryan Coogler, Ryan Gosling, Ben Mendelsohn, Paul Thomas Anderson, Steven Soderbergh, James Lipton This episode of The Moment is brought to you by Showtime’s new series Billions. Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis star in this bold, original drama as two of New York’s most powerful titans locked in an epic battle of egos. And there is no line both men won’t cross to win. Billions premieres January 17th at 10pm—only on Showtime. Email: themomentbk@gmail.com, Twitter: @BrianKoppelman, iTunes: 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

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey, all right, this is awesome. This episode of the moment is brought to you by Showtime's new series, Billions.
0:06.0	Another way I could have said that is, by my new series, Billions.
0:10.0	This is a show that David Levine, Andrew Ross-Sorkin and I created.
0:16.0	David Levine and I are the showrunners of this show.
0:18.9	We spent years thinking about it, writing it, spent this whole past year making the show,
0:24.4	Paul Giamotti, Damien Lewis, Maggie Siff,
0:27.6	Malin Ackerman, and it is a show about power and influence with some intrigue, some humor, and incredible acting.
0:38.8	And you can see it starting January 17th at 10 p.m. only on Showtime.
0:44.0	Plus we got a special housekeeping announcement.
0:46.4	Mom and dad are fighting.
0:47.6	Slate's parenting podcast is having a live show later this month.
0:50.6	It's going to be in Brooklyn at the Bell House on Tuesday, January 26th.
0:54.4	We'll be having a special guest, poet, and First Lady of New York,
0:58.6	Shir Lane McCray. To get tickets, head on over to slate.com
1:03.0	slash live.
1:05.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
1:08.0	Hey, this is the moment I'm Brian Koppelman,
1:10.0	thanks for listening.
1:11.0	This is a special day for me on the show and not just because I got to
1:16.0	advertise my series Billions at the top of it which starts January 17th at 10 p.m. as I said only on
1:22.4	showtime but it's a really special day because this is my
1:27.2	our hundredth episode of the show and I say hour advisedly because it's your show as much as it's my show this right from the
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Brian Koppelman & Gemini XIII, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Brian Koppelman & Gemini XIII and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.