From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

It's The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. You can also hear this show at KCRW.com slash the treatment.

It's just 20 years ago that the soundtrack for the film Garden State won a Grammy.

The compilation producer also has a couple of the jobs on the film.

He wrote, directed, and starred in the movie.

So on that occasion, which will also occasion a 20th anniversary

concert with the proceeds to go to the Midnight Mission, first of all, let's welcome back

the man responsible for all those functions. Our old friend, Zach Braff, Zach, thanks for coming

back to the show again. Elvis, thank you so much for having me. I love your show, and I appreciate

being on. Hey, I appreciate you. And I was telling me you just before we got started, I was at that very first screening at Sundance.

And we were just saying, you were saying before we got started that it was such an interesting sort of stew of things that, of course, as I'm watching, especially in that first scene, so remembering that

first scene with the panic on the plane and the sort of po-faced version that you present

while all this horror is going on, it's kind of a metaphor for the film. But also, to me,

places this film in the same tradition as the graduate.

Well, that's high praise.

Thank you so much.

A graduate was obviously an influence, as was Harold and Maud.

I wanted to talk about this feeling.

I was feeling I was depressed.

I was on antidepressants, feeling sort of numb to everything.

And I didn't know what I stumbled into.

I was just kind of writing anecdotes from my life.

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