ZACH BRAFF - Actor / Writer / Director

Team Deakins

James Ellis Deakins

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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Actor, writer, and director Zach Braff (A GOOD PERSON, GARDEN STATE, SCRUBS) joins us on this episode of the Team Deakins Podcast. Zach fell in love with the arts at an early age, booking one of his first on-screen roles in Woody Allen’s MANHATTAN MURDER MYSTERY and later cutting his teeth in production while PA’ing on music videos in the late 90s. He shares how the stars aligned to cast his first choices in every role on GARDEN STATE and what the impetus was to write the script in the first place. We later learn how Zach storyboards his films in prep and how he’s improved his ability to delegate during production by empowering his crew to solve creative problems. Zach also reflects on his experience crowdfunding WISH I WAS HERE and the challenges of servicing 50,000 backers while actually making the film. Towards the end, Zach shares some advice for young filmmakers, and we debate releasing films directly through streamers versus in theaters and the difficulties of marketing films in today’s marketplace.

This episode is sponsored by Aputure

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to season two of the Team Deacons podcast, a collection of
0:08.8	informal conversations between Roger and James Deacons and a guest. We never know where the conversation
0:15.6	will take us so listen in and see where it goes. This episode is sponsored by Aperture, a company with a global footprint spanning four continents.
0:28.0	Aperture is a driving force in LED cinema technology, renowned for their cutting edge lighting and
0:35.1	software solutions.
0:37.0	focused on enabling filmmakers to achieve their creative vision,
0:41.0	they've built a lighting ecosystem of over 20 different fixtures that can
0:45.8	be controlled wirelessly through their software platform, CITES Link.
0:53.3	Today we're speaking with an actor, writer, and director.
0:57.1	His credits include, Scrubs, Garden State, and a good person.
1:01.9	We're pleased to welcome
1:03.0	Zach Braff.
1:04.0	Zach, thank you for doing this.
1:06.0	I'm so honored to be on your program.
1:09.0	I've listened to so many of the episodes
1:11.0	and Roger, I'm just a lifetime fan of your work and so just to even
1:16.4	meet you is an honor.
1:17.6	Oh thank you.
1:20.6	We'd like to start with our normal question which, how did you get to where you are today?
1:25.3	Is this something you always knew you wanted to do?
1:27.2	Did you take another path?
1:29.2	No, it started very early on in my life.
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