Josh Safdie
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Where you're filtering your entire life through these characters.
You're trying to understand your life through fiction and you're writing, you're creating these characters and maybe you can change the way you feel.
And like, oh, that's why, why I did this, said this to my girlfriend or whatever, did this to my buddy.
And I woke up every morning, I had this and I was like, I got to get Adam Sandler, got Adam Sandler.
And then finally you're making the movie.
with a decent budget and with Adam Sandler, and then it's done.
And then I finished the movie and I'm showing it.
And the pandemic's like around the corner unknowingly.
And someone said, what's next?
And I started to cry because I was like, I didn't know.
I had this hollow feeling because this thing that was like my drive every single day was gone.
Didn't you contemplate maybe being an architect?
Well, I said to Ronnie, I said to Ronnie, I said, I don't even know if I want to do this anymore.
And he was like, whoa, you're my writing partner.
I would love to one day build a building.