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Davis Guggenheim

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  1. “My father was my first great teacher and my second great teacher was David Milch. Who wrote NYP? He was a Yale professor, was brought out to write episodes of Hill Street Blues and then became the genius behind NYPD Blue and then asked me to do Deadwood with him. And he always used to say, and I think this is true, it's apropos of what you just said. He said, the best way to make God laugh is to tell Him your plans. And to get to how I got into documentaries, my dream was to do a feature. And I had found and developed the”

    2016-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 102 - Davis Guggenheim · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “It was the videotape party. But Stephen Soderberg was my age. and moved to LA from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, directing its first movie, didn't have a car. So my job was to drive him to the production office. And I Wide-eyed kid and worked my way up. I became a television director, directed shows like NYPD Blue and ER, ended up, I directed and produced a first season of Deadwood. Some really fun, great work.”

    2016-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 102 - Davis Guggenheim · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “Of Hollywood. Yeah. And I just got regular everyday. Starting jobs. I was basically a PA production assistant on the film Sex Lies and Videotape. Which part”

    2016-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 102 - Davis Guggenheim · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “And no one, it wasn't like he was famous to anybody else. He was just famous to me. But I was also lucky that my father...”

    2016-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 102 - Davis Guggenheim · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “A little bit. I mean, He was in a similar situation, but very different. And I think it's famous that his father, I forget which convention it was, where his father's on-camera network television primetime saying, you know, before Gore was running for president, saying, I... I've been coaching him to be, he'll be president one day. So that was the opposite. My father wanted me to do whatever I wanted to make me happy. I think Al was... His father was pushing him very hard not just to be in politics but to be president.”

    2016-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 102 - Davis Guggenheim · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “Yeah, I don't see a lot of filmmakers whose sons want to become lawyers or doctors. It's sort of a degenerative DNA sequencing thing. But yeah, and I In my father's production office, I sat Next to editing machines, I was on all these shoots, loading, film and stringing lights, and I just thought it was the greatest thing ever. I just didn't think I could ever come close to what he did. I revered him. I thought he was the most gifted writer, director, storyteller, historian that I'd ever met. And how could I even come close?”

    2016-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 102 - Davis Guggenheim · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “He made great documentaries. He made films about the Ku Klux Klan. He made films about the Johnstown Flood, a lot of social justice films. He won four Academy Awards and he was nominated for eleven or twelve, I can't remember. And out of college, I was thinking I'll never. How can I get outside of his shadow? And I can never be as good as him. And I remember May of 1986 graduating and thinking there's no room for another documentarian. Ken Burns has it all wrapped up. And it felt like the genre or the documentaries were. The way they were going to be forever, and there's no room for me. So I thought I got in my Volkswagen Jetta and drove out to LA thinking I'll do anything. I want to be a Hollywood director, but I'm never going to make documentaries.”

    2016-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 102 - Davis Guggenheim · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “And, um, It's for those who are on the convention floor, many couldn't get in. My mother couldn't get in to the 68 Convention of Chicago. They played that film on a 16mm projector and projected it. and apparently from all accounts the convention stopped, people stood up and they sang for three hours. Just arm in arm.”

    2016-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 102 - Davis Guggenheim · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “Can you make a film for the convention? And my father made that film in how many weeks is that eight or ten weeks? Not a lot of time.”

    2016-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 102 - Davis Guggenheim · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “So Bobby was assassinated. Is it May? Is that June? June. Yeah. The conventions in August, and in that time Ethel calls my father. And George Stevens Jr., who is how we met.”

    2016-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 102 - Davis Guggenheim · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  11. “Yeah, they were a dynasty. They were wealthy Irish American family, and yet. And you might say today, well, Bobby, don't go to the Appalachian, don't go in a white shirt with a tie, you know, or don't do it at all because people are going to suspect where your roots are. That footage, it's in my father's film of him putting his, I'll never forget it, is putting his head on this very poor young black boy's head. And you feel... Bobby's compassion. Jack was gifted and a great president, but Bobby had felt like Bobby had an open heart.”

    2016-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 102 - Davis Guggenheim · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  12. “Well Yeah, my father felt that way very deeply, loved him. He became not just a name of a politician, but he became the idea of Of a kind of poetic purity in politics not to be alliterative on purpose, I'm not. He was Deeply felt I mean, we would quote his speeches around the kitchen table. There was a feeling like he was above politics. In politics and above politics, and I think that's how you feel about it. That's how we feel about Barack Obama, that he understood it, managed it, but he had a poetic vision for the country.”

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  13. “Oh yeah, Gore Sr. was the first Southern Democrat to come out against the Vietnam War, and he would have won if he hadn't. At the same time And Al told me this later when we made incoming of truth. He loses the election in November, obviously. Christmas Eve, Al Gore Jr., who had enlisted. And certainly could have gotten out of it. Christmas Eve, Algore ships off to Vietnam To serve in a war that his father Came out against him ended his political career coming out against. So the irony was incredible.”

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  14. “Anne Warren Batty The three of them were sort of the media advisors for the, they were the team that advised McGovern, and that was a very criticized campaign. But the evolution of my father was that he loved doing it. He was passionate about issues. But as the system changed and as it became very quickly a system where it became 30 second ads, he became disenchanted because the more it became about 30 second ads and more the more. Those ads became expensive. It was much easier to be negative and much more effective to be negative that. He wouldn't make a negative ad. Never did.”

    2016-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 102 - Davis Guggenheim · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  15. “He worked for Al Gore Sr. Basically, you know, we had bumper stickers from floor to ceiling of all the campaigns my father worked on. And as kids, we just loved the buttons and going to the conventions. He did McGovern, which is a famous... Campaign for being poorly run with Gary Hart.”

    2016-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 102 - Davis Guggenheim · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  16. “I was five. I was sleeping between my parents when I remember the phone ringing. Kennedy was obviously here in LA at the Ambassador Hotel. We were in DC, and I remember the first time I ever saw my father cry because he loved Bobby Kennedy. He had done his senatorial campaign. And to give you a sense what he made as a political piece of, quote, advertising was a thirty minute film that played on all three networks uninterrupted. That sounds quaint, but imagine what you can get across in thirty minutes. I mean, you as a communicator, you can get into depth, you can get into detail. You can't. Superficial. And so I think my overtime my father, who worked for Adelaide Stevenson before, but also Mondale,”

    2016-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 102 - Davis Guggenheim · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  17. “One of my first memories was nineteen sixty eight. My father waking me up and saying, do you want to go to work with me today? And I remember saying it's dark, Dad. Why would you go to work in the dark? And he said, come with me. And we went and we boarded Bobby Kennedy's campaign, his presidential campaign plane. And we flew to West Virginia and we In some West Virginia mine town and the way my father would do it, he'd put Regular people in a circle, and Bobby Kennedy would be sitting in a chair with his, you've seen the pictures with his sleeves unrolled and his tie loosened and talking to people. And in those days, It was pretty romantic, but it's a different, that was a different Job back then.”

    2016-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 102 - Davis Guggenheim · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source