Glenn Ficarra

And I said, you know what? We got to drop out of this movie because I just can't. I can't leave my son. I can't, you know, I can't just not be part of him being raised, you know? And we quit the movie and a lot of people very angry with us. And Dan's script landed on our desk the next day.

And it was shooting in LA. I mean, it's just like sometimes that's, and we wouldn't have been able to do it if we had kept that movie. So it was just...

And it was shooting in LA. I mean, it's just like sometimes that's, and we wouldn't have been able to do it if we had kept that movie. So it was just...

And it was shooting in LA. I mean, it's just like sometimes that's, and we wouldn't have been able to do it if we had kept that movie. So it was just...

And by the way, you can ask Dan about this. Can you say we said this? Okay. More than anything Dan's ever written, the pilot of This Is Us is a real reflection of his whole life.

And by the way, you can ask Dan about this. Can you say we said this? Okay. More than anything Dan's ever written, the pilot of This Is Us is a real reflection of his whole life.

And by the way, you can ask Dan about this. Can you say we said this? Okay. More than anything Dan's ever written, the pilot of This Is Us is a real reflection of his whole life.

And you should pin him down about that. Because I read it, and I'm like, Dan, this is not a script. This is you. Because so much of his back story, and he won't want to talk about a lot of it. But it was a beautiful thing. It came straight from inside him and his heart. We knew him well enough at that point to really feel it. It was really great.

And you should pin him down about that. Because I read it, and I'm like, Dan, this is not a script. This is you. Because so much of his back story, and he won't want to talk about a lot of it. But it was a beautiful thing. It came straight from inside him and his heart. We knew him well enough at that point to really feel it. It was really great.

And you should pin him down about that. Because I read it, and I'm like, Dan, this is not a script. This is you. Because so much of his back story, and he won't want to talk about a lot of it. But it was a beautiful thing. It came straight from inside him and his heart. We knew him well enough at that point to really feel it. It was really great.

dropping in on a conversation in the family. Right. And so two eyes, always trying to do two eyes over and always trying to crowd the frame. So like you're holding a piece of, like the camera's over here, you're shooting over someone's shoulder and you want to hold a piece of that person in the shot. So there's always two people in the shot.

dropping in on a conversation in the family. Right. And so two eyes, always trying to do two eyes over and always trying to crowd the frame. So like you're holding a piece of, like the camera's over here, you're shooting over someone's shoulder and you want to hold a piece of that person in the shot. So there's always two people in the shot.

dropping in on a conversation in the family. Right. And so two eyes, always trying to do two eyes over and always trying to crowd the frame. So like you're holding a piece of, like the camera's over here, you're shooting over someone's shoulder and you want to hold a piece of that person in the shot. So there's always two people in the shot.

And also in the cutting pattern, staying on the listener,

And also in the cutting pattern, staying on the listener,

And also in the cutting pattern, staying on the listener,

more than than you normally would okay so you see people reacting to dialogue as opposed to just and as you know that was a big thing yes and then in the exact opposite for paradise paradise is oftentimes you'll know two one eye like profile because so you're not inside this is a mystery yeah like you're not in you're not in you're not invited in you're outside of this thing

more than than you normally would okay so you see people reacting to dialogue as opposed to just and as you know that was a big thing yes and then in the exact opposite for paradise paradise is oftentimes you'll know two one eye like profile because so you're not inside this is a mystery yeah like you're not in you're not in you're not invited in you're outside of this thing

more than than you normally would okay so you see people reacting to dialogue as opposed to just and as you know that was a big thing yes and then in the exact opposite for paradise paradise is oftentimes you'll know two one eye like profile because so you're not inside this is a mystery yeah like you're not in you're not in you're not invited in you're outside of this thing

And you want in, you want more information. And this is like, we want to give you too much information. We want to make the audience feel uncomfortable that they're dropping in on this comic.