Craig Brewer

So that was the account number that my dad and I had when we would produce these small plays that I wrote and I directed.

And he would be counting the people in the audience to see if we had a break even for that night and I would be thinking about the play.

But he still was a big believer in trying to keep costs down and doing things that didn't have like sets.

It could be done on a black box stage.

And that kind of translated into film for me.

And, and, and oddly enough, like I still think about it.

I still think, is there a better, more emotional way to do the scene instead of like what I initially wrote?

Like, Oh, it's going to be on this big bridge.

It'll be at night in the rain.

And it's like, now I'm thinking of all the problems that are going to happen with it as opposed to maybe there's a, there's something, there's something that's more attainable and more meaningful.

And that's really what I got from dad.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

I mean –

Yeah.

I mean, without like, you know, apples to apples comparison, like I am.

Yeah, you're not a pimp trying to be a musician.

But I really, you know, when I was making that first film, my wife was pregnant with our first child.

We were living in a small house in Memphis.

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