Jason Bateman
👤 Speaker
22869
total appearances
Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
SmartLess
"RE-RELEASE: Adam Sandler"
I just had to build it back up from zero.
SmartLess
"RE-RELEASE: Adam Sandler"
You know, like in sports, like if you're a 300 hitter, you're guaranteed employment.
SmartLess
"RE-RELEASE: Adam Sandler"
In acting or any form of, pardon the term, art, it's so subjective.
SmartLess
"RE-RELEASE: Adam Sandler"
You can't rely on, well, I'm the best at singing or the best at painting or it doesn't matter.
SmartLess
"RE-RELEASE: Adam Sandler"
I got that after a while, after a while.
SmartLess
"RE-RELEASE: Adam Sandler"
But then the success was so – one after the other after the other.
SmartLess
"RE-RELEASE: Adam Sandler"
Was there a strategic consideration when Punch Drunk Love came about?
SmartLess
"RE-RELEASE: Adam Sandler"
Or was that more of a – did Paul Thomas Anderson come to you and only in hindsight do you see it as a great strategic sort of balancing thing, offsetting the goofiness?
SmartLess
"RE-RELEASE: Adam Sandler"
Or did you think ahead and kind of seek out something that might counterbalance all that?