Ed Helms

Like nobody goes into a movie hoping they're going to make a bad movie.

Nobody wants to make a bad movie.

And in fact, sometimes you think you're making a great movie and it just still doesn't turn out very good.

And sometimes you think you're making a terrible movie and somehow it turns out great.

And so it's like it's I just want I remember I used to be such an asshole.

when I would watch movies and think, I would have done this and I would have done that.

And then I made a movie and I hit my first test screening and there was that asshole who said, you should have done this.

And I said, you don't think I know that, sir.

I couldn't.

And so we hope that we can get people to appreciate movies and the people that make them that much more because they're just so hard.

They're so hard.

I love that.

In particular, I love how

You're just making such a great point about how humbling the movie making experience is.

And it does teach you to appreciate movies in a different way.

The more hours and days and weeks and months that you've spent on set, the more you realize, like, this is incredible.

The amount of cooperation and collaboration and luck.

that it takes to pull something together.

It's just crazy that any movie actually gets made.

Well, I'm really excited to dig into today's story because it feels like something out of a movie or that should become a movie.