Will Arnett
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Podcast Appearances
Like, if I played that voice for you, it'd knock you out.
You'd be like, oh, my God, that's Paul's dad?
I just want to mention that as something very, very cool.
So, Paul, you did not know that.
So you're sitting there, you're watching kind of the sausage get made for television in some aspect.
And were you at that point starting to gather these images and interest in this process and what it was?
oh these are the people that are behind the curtain that create at least this lane of fake life and and and that started to build an idea for you about what you might want to do or get or can you can you track the moment that you thought uh i i want to do something like this i can't remember because for as long as my memories are there i've wanted to to make films for sure um but you have to remember i mean jason you'll remember that there was like such a dividing line between
Yeah, one of my first experiences was people that were very, very close with the crew or at least a full understanding of the importance of the crew as opposed to...
sort of this uh this sort of terrible traditional kind of look at like oh you know the that's you know some people look at crew as sort of soldiers and that you know the the folks that are in front of the camera the ones that are that are super important when it could when the when the opposite is actually the truth and so was that uh did did that start then understanding that oh my god this is this is really difficult and there's actually nobody on the set there that doesn't need to be there
So grabbing those early video cameras, movie cameras, stuff like that, that's sort of a pretty common story where you kind of point a camera at stuff and you kind of take little kid films and little army men.
But what about the writing part?
Do you remember your first experience looking at a blank piece of paper and trying to figure out how to start from zero?
Do you remember that being humbling or surprisingly easy?
We're helping Tracy, okay?
Especially when you're listening to music.