Rick Andrews

It's like ice hurdles, you know?

Yeah.

Like taking the wrong thing and like figuring out, well, why could that be great is like such a good creative muscle.

And that's where a lot of like actual solutions come from is not like when I'm running brainstorm sessions, it's exceedingly rare that the favorite idea by the end of the session started as someone saying something very safe.

and bland, and ass-covering, and then people riff that into innovativeness.

Instead, it starts as someone saying something that is stupid, that is not practical, and is maybe even actually literally a joke.

But it's got this kernel to it.

And then someone else is like, yeah, we can't do that.

But like, oh, what about that with this way?

And you're actually working it into practicality, right?

It's about trying to get the right answer together.

You know, like I'm trying to read your reality and like being wrong is fun and fine if I'm genuinely doing it.

I was having a class this summer and this, I don't know, kind of a middle-aged American guy.

I think I can remember now.

Someone started a scene and was like, you know, basically doing speed, you know, the movie.

And they were like, I can't drive the bus below 50 miles an hour.

It's going to explode.

And the other person, I think it just moved from like Taiwan or Singapore.

Like they've been in the country like three months.

They were 20, like three.