Glenn Ficarra
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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Directing in more ways than one. No, it was our first directing. But we've been working together as writers and making short films since college.
That's where you guys met?
Cats and Dogs. I saw Cats and Dogs. Glenn Ficarra was the voice of the Russian kitty. Stop it. Wait a minute. Breaking news, hot take. I think about the baby puppy.
There was a stiff wind blowing behind Sterling. And Dan was like, okay, I never really heard of him.
In fact, at this location in Glendale, California, we were picked up by a van to go location scout for season two. This is true.
Well, you know, it's an interesting thing. In college, you make movies about death that are morbid and depressing and you think you're going to be a serious filmmaker. Then we would have little side projects that were funny and not emotional but character-based. And everybody loved those and everybody hated their serious films about death.
Back when we had to shoot on film and you'd spend a fortune on getting the film and then you do some stupid thing on the video and everybody's like, I saw that, that was amazing, all across the campus at our school. We have a clip. And we were, if we have any intelligence about us, we were like, well, maybe we should just go with the thing that people like. What was the campus?
It was Pratt in Brooklyn, very near Susan. Oh, cool.
So Susan grew up in the neighborhood. We must have bumped into her. Of course, she was young. Yes. Yeah. But anyway, we were smart enough to go, OK, well, we seem to be good at this. So let's just follow that. And instead of the thing, the highfalutin stuff we thought we were going to do.
And we were also the guys who... You know, I mean, it wasn't a serious film class. We went film one class. They were like, what was the film that got you here? I'm not, this is not a joke. Everybody said Empire Strikes Back. I said Lawrence of Arabia and he said Clockwork Orange. We were the only two guys in the entire class who didn't say Empire Strikes Back.
Yeah, we were the only guys who actually knew about other movies besides Star Wars. Sure. So we were like, I think we should hang out.
Yeah, we were just making short films that tickled us. And then we made a bunch of short film collections and they were, they did the circuit.
The New York Underground Film Festival. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The New York Underground Film Festival. They were there. Which Tom Phillips was on them. Yeah, Todd Phillips was on the board. He was running that.
We've known Todd since when we were just like pimply-faced college kids. We've known Todd. Pour a pitcher of beer over his head, too. And so that got a lot of interest. And then somebody paid us to write a screenplay. They paid us $7,000.
That's huge. To write a screenplay. And we wrote a screenplay. And then he loved that. Gabe Sachs, who's still working in the business out there. And hey, Gabe, if you're listening, And then Gabe then paid us $10,000 to write another screenplay. And just basically whatever, we would just pitch it to him and we weren't union. So we had these things and these things became our calling card. Yeah.
Never got made. Yeah, never got made, but we built our career on just people passed them around and loved the scripts.
We check with each other real quick. We usually, one of us has a better idea of what they want and we can kind of sense that like one's more passionate than the other and we back down. Okay. Yeah. And we, early on, we were really conscientious about like not talking over each other.
Because directing teams are so rare in our early career. They were so rare and people were weirded out by it. But now there's lots of directing teams and we have a bit of a reputation. So now we just, you know how it is now. We just come down and like, shut up guys, shut up. I mean, we used to have just one of you talk.
The DGA, the Director's Guild of America, is OK with it now. But if you, for example, Joel and Ethan Coen, their first five movies, I think, are produced by Ethan, directed by Joel, because they would not give them shared credit, even though they directed them together. They were brothers. And they were brothers. They had worked together their whole life.
And so the DGA was sort of, and when we joined as a team, we had to make a movie independently in order to qualify to be a team. And we were grilled. We were like brought in and like, it was like the interrogation scene. About your knowledge of directing? Just about like, you guys are gonna divide the work.
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