Tracy Letts

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2,850 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 4d ago

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And Werner Herzog made the movie Fitzcarraldo, and there's a documentary about the making of Fitzcarraldo called— Burden of Dreams.

Burden of Dreams.

Directed by Les Blank.

Les Blank, directed Burden of Dreams.

You know, those are both guys who they knew what the job was.

They took that on.

They said from the beginning, yeah, the buck stops with me.

I want to be a movie director.

You know that that's the gig.

You want to be the one who's ultimately responsible.

So when shit is going wrong, yeah, you take it on.

Mm-hmm.

You can't just sit there pointing your fingers at everybody else and saying it's all your fault that this thing is fucked up.

And you hear a lot of Coppola on the Hearts of Darkness documentary saying, no, it's me.

I'm a failure.

I'm failing.

Pretty compelling.

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Well, I mean, they're also kind of what-ifs, right?

They're all sort of, what if this had gone a little bit differently?

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