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Brian Grazer

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“Okay, a couple thoughts. One is I bet everybody in this audience is curious. You get the value of a different perspective that is outside of the definition of what you thought you were going to experience. So whether it's an architect, you think you know what an architect is, or I thought I knew what an architect was, I was wrong. I met Rim Coolhouse, and the first thing he said is it's like a live, architecture is like a living organism. I would have never guessed that he'd think of architecture on its base level as a living organism. And I can go through every one of my conversations where I was completely surprised and it either shattered a prejudice or expanded a preconception. And so absolutely do it. And what does it sort of reaches right into the soul of humanity, which I think is something, an access point for all of us, I'm sure, because at the very...”
2017-11-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #279: The Most Curious Man in Hollywood — Brian Grazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, this will really be something I need to ground myself as goodness. And I don't care if he hasn't directed, I'll get him to direct. You know, like I'll figure it out. And I also wanted to be a mainstream movie producer because I'd produce television, but not a theatrical film. And then I go, I'll back you, man. I mean, I didn't say man, but that would have scared him too. Anyway, so that's how that happened. And then the first movie he wanted to make was Night Shift because Nightshift was an R-rated comedy that involved nudity and kind of was irreverent, and he was just coming off happy days. And of course, Andy at Mayberry, and he wanted to go, I don't want to be that clean-cut guy anymore. I still might be that guy, but I don't want to be looked at as that guy. I'm doing the irreverent nude one with nude girls, and I'm not going to do that one. And so we got night shift made. It wasn't a hit, but it was really solid.”
2017-11-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #279: The Most Curious Man in Hollywood — Brian Grazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And now he's scared, but I call his office and I speak to his still now assistant Louisa and I go, come on like and I tell you the whole story, now I'm on the lot, he's on the lot, blah, blah, blah. And so then I get to meet Ron Howard. Ron Howard literally, it was the craziest thing. He hadn't directed, of course, a big mainstream movie, but he comes into my office and I felt like it was like he had like had an aura of goodness about him. And I thought, wow, do I need goodness?”
2017-11-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #279: The Most Curious Man in Hollywood — Brian Grazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Ron Howard. Okay. So Ron Howard came before night shift and splash, although I'd written the story for a night shift and the script for splash, but I couldn't get them to made. But I still had this very big deal. I had this big deal at Paramount because Michael Eisner and Barry Diller spotted me and they said, that guy that this guy won't give a raise to will totally pay this guy. He's like an idea machine. And so then I got this job and then that was a time where I wanted to meet people is still in the business a little bit. And I looked at Ron Howard. He was still on happy days. I actually yelled out the window because I had a window and it's a really good building. Go Ron, Ron Howard. And I scared him because he's shy.”
2017-11-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #279: The Most Curious Man in Hollywood — Brian Grazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Okay, o And so, from that point, sorry I know what we're talking about. We're talking about transitioning into more. So once things started to gel and I wrote splash, which became a movie, you know, a real life movie that starred Tom Hanks and a mermaid and all that, then I started to myself. There'll never be two weeks that I don't, that I'm going to pledge myself. I'm going to create a discipline that every two weeks I will meet someone that is expert or renowned or committed to something that is unrelated to entertainment. So science, medicine, politics, religion, technology, all art forms. And that's what I've done still to this day and without fail ever. And sometimes more than one person every two weeks, but always once every two weeks.”
2017-11-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #279: The Most Curious Man in Hollywood — Brian Grazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then I thought, I can really be highbrow, and I think I'll do, I sold a 20-hour miniseries on the Ten Commandments, where each commandment was used as an underlying theme in a contemporary moral dilemma. And so I produced the Zuma Beach one. My boss was really embarrassed because he was Edgar J. Sherrick. But then when I got good ratings, it was like, everything's fine. You know, like it was good. And then I started doing the Ten Commandments. And that was good, but he kept yelling at me and it was really abusive. And I started getting a lot of job offers, like amazing opportunities. And so I say to him, hey, you think you'd give me your raise? No chance. So then I took a job, another, I mean, a better, much better thing. Were we on that subject”
2017-11-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #279: The Most Curious Man in Hollywood — Brian Grazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then he was on the East Coast, I was on the West Coast. This boss, and rest in peace, it's totally cool. He was either yelling his lungs out at you or giving you opportunity. So literally, he was very happy to scream at you and yell at you, and he could only be happier if other people were there to watch it. And he did that to Ruden and I, but he would give you opportunity. So all those little stories I wrote, a few of them I was able to like sell working for this bigger guy. And so I sold two of them and they became movies for television when I was about 25. One was called Zuma Beach. It was just super attractive people day in the life of the beach. But I would sort of say it's like American graffiti at the beach, you know, like give it a little dignity.”
2017-11-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #279: The Most Curious Man in Hollywood — Brian Grazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Which was kind of an epiphany, but it was an epiphany, but I was also reality. So now I'm in the very lowest job working for somebody, his name was Edgar J. Sherrick. Edgar J. Sherrick was Harvard, and he was really smart, and he created the wild world of sports and ran ABC programming and now had left and had this giant deal at Warner coincidentally at Warner Brothers television. But he also had money to bring to it and everything else. I take a job working for Edgar J. Sherrick, as did a very esteemed producer exactly at my level named Scott Rudin, who I really respect. He's a tremendous taste. We both were baby assistants that called ourselves lieutenants.”
2017-11-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #279: The Most Curious Man in Hollywood — Brian Grazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Then I thought, you know what? I'll give myself a little more time and try to pull this thing off, just jump the ship, you know, like, and so I couldn't, it didn't work. It didn't work. So I thought, you know what? I'm just going to take a really crummy job. I'm going to take a job as the lowest assistant and be happy with it, like be present in the process of the lowest job.”
2017-11-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #279: The Most Curious Man in Hollywood — Brian Grazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I got fired. But I wasn't broken down because I was fired, but I thought, wow, I am really smart, though. I thought I was so smart. I thought I was really cunning, really resourceful, and I had researched a lot now, and I've met a lot of people, and I'd start to understand their process, their system of how they would accomplish something, or just to keep it simple. And I thought, wow, I'm so smart. I should go from the fired law clerk to being like running a movie company, you know? It's absurd. But I did think, so I thought, I'm going to just jump from that guy that's 23 to like I should run somebody's movie company. Well, I found that that didn't work at all. I then started getting unaware.”
2017-11-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #279: The Most Curious Man in Hollywood — Brian Grazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I was doing these curiosity conversations and I was demanding to meet all those famous people. But the straw was I started to created tremendous access with myself and their story department. The story department had all the early submissions of any script or manuscript that was that could possibly be sold or bidded upon or was owned by Warner Brothers. And so I was like crawling under the tent and getting all that information. And to be really honest, I think I actually might have tried to kind of create a fake bid on something. And they just got so annoyed with it at all You know, it was like that lecture of we could file a lawsuit against you, but you're too young, so just get out of here, a version of that.”
2017-11-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #279: The Most Curious Man in Hollywood — Brian Grazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes. So for the year and a half, it was just completely in the population of entertainment. So people that were getting something in principles, they were getting something done in movies or television. Then I got fired, clearly. I'm going to get fired from that job, right? From the Warner Brothers job, they finally fired me. Sam Pasquin finally fired me.”
2017-11-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #279: The Most Curious Man in Hollywood — Brian Grazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, it's accurate. I would say to, and I still say there's not going to be an ask. I just want to have a one-on-one conversation. It can be a very short conversation. It's up to you. It's up to your boss, whoever I'm speaking to, but there'll be, you know, essentially, your boss is not going to be uncomfortable. I'm not going to ask for anything. I'm not going to position him. I'm not going to ask him one of those really hard questions, Barbara Walter's questions. I'm going to do any of that. So basically everybody's going to be safe here. That was the premise.”
2017-11-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #279: The Most Curious Man in Hollywood — Brian Grazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I We're not even going to go there. So I said, Will you explain to me how Mr. Deeds comes to town is going to become, heaven can wait in kind of a fantasy? Like, what is that going to be? Because that's where the papers were, Mr. Deeds. They were all interlinked. And so I started off like that. So I had a prop. Props are very, very, very important.”
2017-11-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #279: The Most Curious Man in Hollywood — Brian Grazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I have a system now that's much more refined than it was then. But at the time, Heaven can wait was built on a material called Mr. Deeds Comes to Town, I believe. And I should know this. But you ask good questions. That's why you've got”
2017-11-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #279: The Most Curious Man in Hollywood — Brian Grazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so they were kind of going, hey, you're like a scammer, cut it out. And then they got my parking stripped away, so I had to park the copper penny across the street and just a bunch of stuff I built.”
2017-11-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #279: The Most Curious Man in Hollywood — Brian Grazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You're the Warner Brothers Yeah, sorry, on the Warner Brothers lot. And those two secretaries were there in the office of the executive that I then inhabited his office.”
2017-11-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #279: The Most Curious Man in Hollywood — Brian Grazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, there were two union, one's a paralegal and one was a secretary that were there from the previous boss. This is on your...”
2017-11-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #279: The Most Curious Man in Hollywood — Brian Grazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He might have liked me a little bit, a little tiny bit, but mostly he just felt like, let me give him some advice and get him out of here, some real advice.”
2017-11-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #279: The Most Curious Man in Hollywood — Brian Grazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I get into the elevator. Now I'm on the 14th floor. I get out. He's got his hands in the air like this. Like, don't go any further. So he wasn't like any other normal guy I was. It was a look like I didn't, I couldn't say much. I was sort of frozen and he said, wait one minute. And he goes into his office and he comes back with a pencil and a legal tablet. And he said, you put the pencil to the paper and it has greater value than it did as separate parts. Get out of here. So I take the pencil and the paper and I'm now escorted to the elevator. And I thought, what is he saying? What's going on here? And I realized what he's saying is like, you've got to do better than this. You better start writing ideas, even after little ideas, that you can breathe life into or that have value.”
2017-11-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #279: The Most Curious Man in Hollywood — Brian Grazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So basically Lou Wasserman was the king of the entire movie business. He was the patriarch of it all and he ran universal movie and television company. And I'm thinking, wow, would I like to meet Lou Wassman? He is the man. I'm going to meet him. And he was sort of like the elderly statesman, and he was friends with Henry Kissinger. I mean, he had it all. He was a man for all seasons. And so I target a lot of his assistants and I eventually met a melody, his number one assistant in the parking lot way out on the lot. And I said, oh, come on, please. I begged her anyway. And she said, okay. So then what happens is I'm in the elevator going up to now meet Lou Wasserman.”
2017-11-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #279: The Most Curious Man in Hollywood — Brian Grazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“IP. So I was able to understand the system of leverage. And so I was able to say to somebody, I've researched your boss. I'd love to meet him for the following reason. And the following reason, like Robert Evans, it would be real reasons like I saw the godfather and I can't believe that he could was involved in the creation of that plus love story. They were so diverse. I mean, literally stuff like that. So I was good at it. But it was a little bullshit in it too, but I was good at it. And then I had this moment with Lou Wasserman.”
2017-11-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #279: The Most Curious Man in Hollywood — Brian Grazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, what I did learn to do on the series, I did learn to prepare. So it wasn't just like fly by the seat of my pants. I really, really prepared. So first of all, by being in that office, I would read the trades and I decoded the language of entertainment because the language of show business is like it looks like, hey, let's go to a party and hang out. There's a lot more than let's go to a party and hang out. And so I was able to fly my little Cessna through this fog and find my way to understand beneath the language, I start to understand the mechanics of how it worked and how to actually, where leverage, we're the leverage was. So the leverage could be the studio because they have money or it could be creative leverage because a director was expert in something or it could be that you just had IP or it could be that you create”
2017-11-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #279: The Most Curious Man in Hollywood — Brian Grazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There had to be a point. Well, I started to use the office every single day for a year. I met a new person that was getting something done in the entertainment business from every chairman of every studio, from Melbourne's to Richard Brooks. I mean, stars, and I would just call up, I know the speech so well, hi, my name is Brian Grazer. I work at Warner Brothers Pictures. This is not associated with studio business, but I'd like to meet your boss for the following reasons. And I might be like three or four tiers down. I'm saying this to, you know, like, you know, to one assistant, to another assistant, and I could wear everybody down eventually. And then my assistant said, we're sort of sick of you. We're getting you fired. I said, okay, hold on. Before you fire me, I will give you half of my salary if you don't get me fired. So they took half my salary. Hold on.”
2017-11-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #279: The Most Curious Man in Hollywood — Brian Grazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Two union secretaries that they wouldn't fire, and they were really strict because they didn't like that I was using the office for me to benefit of me. And so they were like getting really mad at me and they got my parking revoked and stuff like that.”
2017-11-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #279: The Most Curious Man in Hollywood — Brian Grazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I did have this tool that I didn't really imagine could be the superpower of curiosity, but I had this sort of bridge where I could ask questions. There was a huge circular driveway where the big shots could park and I would find my way to sort of be down there when they're parking their car and I'd say, hey, and they'd say, walk on them up, come on up with me. And one of them took a liking to me in his office had no desk. It was just, I was so admired at the office. Had no desk, it had a big swordfish that he caught and boats and stuff. And I'm thinking, wow, this is the life. This seems like the right business. But then what I did, I had two union secretaries, and I can do this quickly. I had two union secretaries.”
2017-11-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #279: The Most Curious Man in Hollywood — Brian Grazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I realized that I could actually use my, oh, so then what happens is... So then I see that somebody, a senior vice president of business affairs, got fired and had this giant office and it was vacant. And I say to my boss, Peter Connect, who started with Jack Warner in the day, who leaves like at lunch, I say, do you think I could have that office? And he goes, sure, no problem. So I now have an office bigger than my bosses, and it's so far away from my boss. He doesn't even notice me, really. And then, but I'm right outside the cadre of decision makers, the chairman of the board, Ted Ashley, the vice chairman of the board, John Kelly, and then Frank Wells. Okay, so then they would go, hey, you know, like, you seem like a good kid. Why don't you sit on my couch and watch me work? And I thought, wow, this is great. I'm really learning a lot watching them work.”
2017-11-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #279: The Most Curious Man in Hollywood — Brian Grazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I start doing it every time, and I get every person I get to go see, the author of the Exorcist, I literally, I had to drive it out to Malibu, and before you knew it, I got through the butler and I'm sipping espresso on the porch over the ocean. I'm only 22. But I'm really learning a lot. I'm feeling like, wow, this is a great sort of learning tool also. I mean, I'm also using the Warner Brothers assets to advantage me, but I wasn't really hurting anybody. I wasn't stealing. And so that sort of beginning of it. And then I just continued going to law school. And I convinced my boss, can I stay there for one more year? I'm pushing law school a year. Right. So just align this very quickly. So then what happens?”
2017-11-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #279: The Most Curious Man in Hollywood — Brian Grazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I say, Why don't I say they're not valid unless I get them to Mr. Beatty, my hand to his hand? So I try that out and it kind of works. And another assistant comes down like, we're having trouble with this kid down here. You know, like he says you have to hand it. So his number one personal assistant comes down. I said, look, I'm just telling you straight up, these papers are invalid unless I hand them directly to Mr. Baby. So, okay, and so I go upstairs and now it's like I see this Adonis, you know, Warren Baby, and I literally go, hand her the papers and I create a conversation right away.”
2017-11-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #279: The Most Curious Man in Hollywood — Brian Grazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And said, I understand you might be looking for a law clerk, and I'm preparing myself to go to law school, and I'd love to come in and meet, and I got the job that day. So then... That leads to a lot of other stuff. So basically, then I now have the job as the law clerk, and literally it is the crappiest little jobiest little job in the tiniest little office with no windows. I mean, it's literally, it was like a prison cell. But I was in there, and every once in a while, they'd say, you've got to deliver papers to, they'd name famous people or powerful people. The woman named Sue Mingers that was the head of ICM, the International Creative Management, and the most important agent in the world, you got to deliver these papers. And so pretty early on, I had to deliver some papers to Warren Baty. Warren Beady was a giant movie star, and he's living at the Beverly Wiltshire Hotel and had like a penthouse, a giant penthouse area. And an assistant to an assistant comes downstairs to say, hand me the papers, kid, you know, like that kind of a thing.”
2017-11-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #279: The Most Curious Man in Hollywood — Brian Grazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You guys clearly know what to do. You're here. But I didn't know what to do, so I thought, well, you know, one of these, I'll go to law school. But okay, so what happened is I thought I'll go okay, I thought, okay, I get into law school, and then I over, I mean, I'm living in an apartment complex in Santa Monica, and I overhear these three guys that just had graduated law school. And one of them says, yeah, man, I just left the cushiest job. And I'm thinking, wow, what an interesting word, cushy job. I mustn't mean really easy. So I literally opened up the screen, the window, and closed the drape so I could really listen in. And he says, yeah, it was so easy, man. It was a $5 an hour job, and they gave us a company car. I got a company car, and it was at Warner Brothers in the legal department. And they said his name, Peter Connect. But I literally, when they walked away, I got the number, 843-6000, just out 411, and I called.”
2017-11-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #279: The Most Curious Man in Hollywood — Brian Grazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I didn't really know what to do. So when you graduate college, you kind of don't know what to do. I mean, well, you guys probably are.”
2017-11-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #279: The Most Curious Man in Hollywood — Brian Grazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“By writing it down and reading books and yellow penning stuff, and then I would just continue, I was always editing the system almost like a movie as I was propelling myself through the class. And when it came to any big test, I was at a point where I'd synthesized it to something I could really look at in less than an hour before I went to bed. And I wasn't really, I mean, now I would say it was a way, it did enter your subconsciousness, and I was able to really do, I really did well. But then I did discontinue going to law school. I think that's what you”
2017-11-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #279: The Most Curious Man in Hollywood — Brian Grazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Somehow got through that class, again, like a C or something. And I did stay in college. I graduated USC. I did pretty well, actually, because I somehow found a system in the last two years had a test, you know, just a system of being able to synthesize and then literally integrate it into my system right before I went to sleep at night. So I was able to assimilate it and actually perform. So it wasn't fully just memorized, it was assimilated.”
2017-11-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #279: The Most Curious Man in Hollywood — Brian Grazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Public speaking. It's public speaking class. And it was a Mr. French. Sounds like a television name. In any event, Mr. French says, why don't you stay behind? So I stay behind. He puts his arm around me. Remember exactly what he looked like. And he says, I want to make a recommendation. My recommendation is that you discontinue going to college. I've been watching you. You've been in the class. I really think that this is kind of a, it's not futile, but a little bit of a waste of time for everybody. And I thought about it. I thought, wow, what is this guy? It's just horrible. So I didn't quit college. I did stay in college, but he was really pretty emphatic about going to an occupational school. Which he recommended”
2017-11-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #279: The Most Curious Man in Hollywood — Brian Grazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, it's in there somewhere, but it's more that as a freshman in college there was a speech, oh boy, this really actually parallels what's going on right now. There's a metric involved. Actually, I was in speech class. And there was about 125 kids in this freshman speech class.”
2017-11-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #279: The Most Curious Man in Hollywood — Brian Grazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Butterfly, you're like, okay, they kind of become alert and I get in lane eight. And lane eight, by the way, let me tell you, is the worst lane because you're getting all the flow over and everything else and you're kind of bobbing as you're swimming. I am swimming this butterfly that I hadn't really swam, and I hit the side of the end of the pool, and I thought everybody was out of the pool. And Wiley's there with a clock, and he goes, you just broke the city record. And I'm going, oh, that's amazing. And I looked and everyone was behind me, and he became my hero because he then championed me. My grandmother could relay it off to Coach Wiley.”
2017-11-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #279: The Most Curious Man in Hollywood — Brian Grazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, I had a coach Wiley. Coach Wiley was a football coach and kind of tough, but he was also the swim coach. And I had this accident experience of being incredibly good as a hundred butterfly swimmer. And it was the oddest thing because I felt so badly about myself because of the football that I went into track and I did gymnastics, but that wasn't very satisfying. I thought, well, I'll try something else. There's also a way to duck out a first period. So I went to swimming. I went out for swimming. And the worst, so we had a pre-meet. Los Angeles City meet. There's about 60 schools in Los Angeles City And they go, he goes, Grazer, lane eight. But I've never really swam the butterfly.”
2017-11-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #279: The Most Curious Man in Hollywood — Brian Grazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, that's a shame issue. So I probably didn't share it. No one's actually asked me that question. I didn't really share that. I shared it once I made this movie and I was proud of the movie, but I didn't share it at the time. No.”
2017-11-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #279: The Most Curious Man in Hollywood — Brian Grazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There's a lot of ways everything is about all content, I think, involves a unique perspective. And so my perspective on this book was Sherits About Small Town, a small town in Odessa, Texas, and Sheritz about what small town living is like, and it is about high school football, but it's also about the fragility of what it's like to grow up as a young boy, 15, 16, 17 years old, and that a single moment, like the one I just had, can be absolutely seismic in somebody's life and can completely redirect where you thought you were going. So that was my connective tissue to this book called Friday Night Lights. And then I grabbed a hold of it and I eventually gave a short story. I ended up making it into a movie, but wasn't that simple, of course. And then I ended up turning... Into the TV series that you guys probably know Friday Night Lights”
2017-11-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #279: The Most Curious Man in Hollywood — Brian Grazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Longer a human being, and certainly in that room. And it stuck with me. And it stuck with me, and I retained the memory of those ten seconds. And if you want me to go, it gave life to when I read a book, it was called Friday Night Lights.”
2017-11-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #279: The Most Curious Man in Hollywood — Brian Grazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Got through it, and the coaches said, okay, everybody in an auditorium, so there was about 300 kids all in an auditorium, and they were to state that the job was your status, your name and your status. So it would be Perry Schellmeyer, tailback, Richard Cox, I'm giving you the real names, quarterback, Brian Grazer, tailback, incorrect. Everything stopped. And he said, after he said incorrect, Koch Ogawa said, cut. So I got cut from high school football in front of about 300 kids. And it was pretty, it was, look, it was momentarily, or maybe a little longer than that, traumatizing. Because before I had to give my stat, name and status, I was a human being. And once I did that, I was no longer.”
2017-11-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #279: The Most Curious Man in Hollywood — Brian Grazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, okay. So, first of all, I'm from Los Angeles. I'm from the San Fernando Valley, the flat part. Really? Okay. So I went to Chatsworth High School, Nobel Junior High. Come on, really? All right, so I'm at, so first of all, I was a very feisty kid and I was very resourceful and had a lot of energy and could keep up in sports with all of my friends. In elementary school and junior high. When we transitioned into high school, all my friends became 6'3", or 6'4". And as you saw, my license says 5'8", I'm not sure. In any event, but I thought I could play football, and so I went out. For football, did Hell Week, which is like what it sounds like Hell Week”
2017-11-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #279: The Most Curious Man in Hollywood — Brian Grazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Of thought there is really no empirical data that supports that I'm going to be special, but nothing defied her, nothing could wear her down. And she was there also in early supporter of me asking questions and using curiosity as a force or an engine to understand things because, and we spoke for only a minute because I was struck with dyslexia, but it wasn't thought of as dyslexia then. I was just embarrassed that I couldn't answer questions and read books and you sort of duck and hide.”
2017-11-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #279: The Most Curious Man in Hollywood — Brian Grazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Okay, grandmother. I had a pretty normal family, or actually it looked like it was normal. But I did have in the entire family I had one person that was a champion of me that was a believer, and that was my grandma, Grandma Sonia, who I dedicated my book to and should be dedicating everything to. And you really just need one believer. She was a tiny little feisty renegade named Sonia. She was about 4'10, and she would watch me, I'd see her every week. And as an elementary school student, she'd tell me I was going to be special. I am special, and she meant it in the best sense. And I would be looking at my report card, and it was all F's. Everything was an F. And there was a point where I could...”
2017-11-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #279: The Most Curious Man in Hollywood — Brian Grazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT