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Jeremy Zimmer

lines on the record: 21
first: 2020-07-25
most recent: 2020-07-25
sittings or episodes: 1
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“Thank you. It's been a real pleasure. I'm a huge admirer of yours and what you do. So thanks for allowing me to join you.”
2020-07-25 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · How I Built Resilience: Jeremy Zimmer of United Talent Agency · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But you need to be concerned. You know, it's like it's too different. It's almost playing offense and defense always at the same time. And that's been a really great challenge and a difficult challenge for me and something I've learned a lot from.”
2020-07-25 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · How I Built Resilience: Jeremy Zimmer of United Talent Agency · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What this time has done for me is it is really allowed me to reflect on fragility and develop more empathy. You know, when I first started hearing about this and people were scared of the virus, I was like, oh, come on. What are you kidding me? Let's go. I lived through the 70s. This is fine. And, you know, that was such an uneducated and unsympathetic view. And to understand that people are experiencing the world in so many different ways and there's so much anxiety out there. And to be able to be there as a friend and as a supporter and as a listener and as a concerned colleague is a really, really valuable characteristic now and I think going forward. I think leadership today is not sort of you need to be strong, but you need to be quiet. You need to be intentional.”
2020-07-25 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · How I Built Resilience: Jeremy Zimmer of United Talent Agency · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, one of the most important things I look for is somebody who has a real passion for the product. I want to be an agent because I love music and I love artists and I want to figure out a way to work with them and I believe in the journey of the artist and I see value in being a part of the team for an artist and what I can bring to the party. You know, if you want to represent filmmakers, you have to understand and value the power of storytelling through the cinematic medium. I know that sounds academic, but it's real. And if you can't, you know, if you can't sit down and tell me who your 10 favorite filmmakers are and why, or five favorite filmmakers and why, then how are you really going to communicate to a filmmaker why he or she should let you represent them?”
2020-07-25 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · How I Built Resilience: Jeremy Zimmer of United Talent Agency · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, absolutely. I mean, look, every crisis has its innovation. And what's interesting, I mean, I think Spotify broke its streaming record maybe yesterday or the day before. So the hunger and appetite for music is as big as ever, you know, and we're just seeing it over and over again. And we're seeing the way artists just explode into the public consciousness three years ago, Billy Eilish was someone no one had ever heard of. And wow. And I mean, Juice World just released his new album and posthumously, it's a gigantic hit. And so what we're seeing is this incredible thirst for great music. I just have to believe that when people can go out and experience it live again, they will.”
2020-07-25 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · How I Built Resilience: Jeremy Zimmer of United Talent Agency · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't know that they'll make up the same revenue from those events, but I think they will be able to earn a living doing live events, especially if we can figure out the right ways to sort of geofense a live event. So if you want to do a live event for Portland and Seattle, you could sort of do it for those two areas. So you can kind of replicate a touring model. It'll require really putting together something that's going to be very dynamic on screen, which will not be a straight up stand on a stage and do a performance. So how do we create the events to be very dynamic and engaging? And that'll be part of where that business goes going forward.”
2020-07-25 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · How I Built Resilience: Jeremy Zimmer of United Talent Agency · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It sounds like I think there's going to be a lot of need for a lot of TV for a long time. People seem so excited and compelled by what they can watch. And it seems like there's going to be a need for a very long time. And we have a very, very aggressive and competitive marketplace with these streamers who are really fighting each other to get the very best stuff. And that's going to be tremendous benefit for clients who are going to be able to take advantage of that competition.”
2020-07-25 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · How I Built Resilience: Jeremy Zimmer of United Talent Agency · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Do I believe that we were doing something illegal or scandalous or anything like that? I don't. We were incredibly transparent. It was all available and everyone seemed to be on board with it. But things change. So we accept that they change. We've now reached a deal with the Writers Guild. We feel like both sides prevailed and that there were some things about what they initially wanted that were completely unacceptable to us. And many of those demands have been dropped. And that was very, very important to us. And we've given in on packaging, which I think is obviously very important to them. I'm just excited we can go back to working together and hopefully we'll be able to put great TV shows together and continue to get great results for our clients.”
2020-07-25 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · How I Built Resilience: Jeremy Zimmer of United Talent Agency · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“By the way, you said it is complex and it is. It is wildly nuanced. There are, I could argue 14 different sides of the conversation with almost equal vigor. At the end of the day, we started as a writer's agency. We really believe that really it's all about storytelling. So we wanted to get back in business with writers and we wanted to be a place where writers feel like we are listening to their concerns. Do I agree with everything that the writers give?”
2020-07-25 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · How I Built Resilience: Jeremy Zimmer of United Talent Agency · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I think we play a big role. To me, the role is very much driven by and guided by the people in front of the camera. It's the artists who need to have a voice and can tell stories and those stories will help us all change the way we look at the world and change our priorities and help us focus on the problems. And I think that representing dynamic new voices and diverse voices and making sure they're being given every opportunity and in some ways, you know, really being jumped to the front of the line in some cases. I think is a really important burden for representation. And as part of that, we need to have colleagues that those artists can feel as comfortable as they can with anybody. So when they look at their team of agents, they want to see people on that team that that look like them and represent the world they come from”
2020-07-25 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · How I Built Resilience: Jeremy Zimmer of United Talent Agency · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, that's a really important part of our go forward initiative. We are going to be as aggressive as we can be and as sort of streamlined as we can be to find, develop, and support a much more diverse agent force. In the last year, we've actually hired three African American division heads at the company. So we've been able to find really great executives. We just had to be able to either, in some cases, a little more creative or in some cases a little more aggressive. And we're going to continue on that path and be as assertive and rigorous as we can be about that.”
2020-07-25 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · How I Built Resilience: Jeremy Zimmer of United Talent Agency · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Suddenly now I'm flying. I have to take my shoes off. I have to go through this. I have to go through that. It's all different. But we adapted and that became the norm. And I think that people have to understand that when you look back on events you're facing, they're often not nearly as awful as when you're facing them. You know, when I'm looking towards a problem, it seems it's going to be all consuming and impossible to surmount. And when I look back on that same problem, I can go, wow. That was a pain in the ass, but here's what I learned from it. Here are the people that helped me get through it. And in retrospect, I learned a great deal and I'm stronger having been through it.”
2020-07-25 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · How I Built Resilience: Jeremy Zimmer of United Talent Agency · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I think what we're focusing on is staying in contact with the clients we have and making sure they feel that we're there, we're connected, we're trying to be creative, we're trying to help them think through what steps they can be taking. Or in some cases we're going backwards, particularly with writers where so many writers have written really good scripts and really good projects that somehow didn't come together. And in the hustle-bustle of daily life, sort of move on to the next thing. So we're also looking backwards and remembering the script that someone wrote eight years ago for Paramount and then three Paramount regimes changed, but the script's still really good. And how can we bring that back to life? So we're doing that. And, you know, I'm also trying to remind them, look, I remember when 9-11 happened, I sat there and said, well, I'm never flying again. And, you know, I don't know, a year later, six months later, I was flying all over the place. Now, it was different.”
2020-07-25 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · How I Built Resilience: Jeremy Zimmer of United Talent Agency · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We did an incredible thing with our client Cascade where he did a show on the overlook at the Grand Canyon. So we were able to, you know, he was able to secure that as a place and we were able to help him arrange for a live stream of a full show shot in that incredible location. That's an example of how performers are thinking about what they want to do and how they can use this moment to do things that aren't normal, that don't need the full audience, but then give them an opportunity to reach out to their fans in an environment that's going to be exciting and dynamic.”
2020-07-25 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · How I Built Resilience: Jeremy Zimmer of United Talent Agency · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, there's only so much you can really do. We try to create new opportunities and new sources of revenue for clients. And so that can be clients who have the time and ability to go into publishing or clients who have the time and ability to go.”
2020-07-25 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · How I Built Resilience: Jeremy Zimmer of United Talent Agency · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think that'll happen perhaps more quickly than the theatrical because the television gets released when it gets produced. So it's not like they've been sitting on movies waiting for the theaters to open as soon as something's done and available, whatever they schedule it for that release. So I don't think people, especially right now with such an unbelievably captive or captured audience, you know, people want new material now. I don't think streamers or networks are sitting on their best stuff waiting for another time. I think they're throwing whatever they can out at the audience. That'll be to me a bigger concern is how do they keep the supply of fresh content going?”
2020-07-25 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · How I Built Resilience: Jeremy Zimmer of United Talent Agency · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think it could work, but it'll be dependent on how expensive the movie is and it'll be dependent on how much people can charge and how much the audience will show up. I mean, it's hard to know, but you could imagine that let's take the New Jurassic Park movie. You know, if Universal ultimately elected to put that out at $100 a household, maybe people would pay for it. And maybe, you know, if you've got five million people to pay $100, maybe that would cover the cost of the production and put everybody into profitability. I don't really don't know, but I think we're going to see people starting to test different ways to monetize the content that they're making as the theatrical business remains in question.”
2020-07-25 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · How I Built Resilience: Jeremy Zimmer of United Talent Agency · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, there has been a backlog of releases, so movies that were in post-production being finished or being prepared for distribution, those movies haven't been distributed because the theaters have been dark. So there is a backlog of new theatrical releases that will be available when theaters open back up. Some studios have taken to selling some of their product direct to streamers and releasing them direct on streaming or on electronic sell-through. So there will be some flow of new material, but that will winnow down, I would imagine, pretty quickly. And for companies that are relying on pure television production, that's going to winnow down much more quickly.”
2020-07-25 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · How I Built Resilience: Jeremy Zimmer of United Talent Agency · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The most part, the sound studios and production facilities in most of the US are dark. There are movies being made in New Zealand. I think Tyler Perry is doing some production in Atlanta. People are going up to Vancouver to begin looking at production there. I think there's a production being done in London. You know, we have some things coming back, but it's still very slow. And we're hoping that this new wave doesn't shut down whatever progress has been made.”
2020-07-25 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · How I Built Resilience: Jeremy Zimmer of United Talent Agency · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, so far it's affected us because, first of all, everybody in the company participated in a salary reduction of some form or another. That was a really difficult thing to ask everybody to join in this sacrifice. But, you know, what we realized is the overall financial health of the company, sustaining the company for the duration is going to be more positive and ultimately important thing for people than trying to maintain everybody's salary at that current level in the short term. So that was a difficult sacrifice. We chose to make some furloughs. We took advantage of the fact that governments were supporting people who had been furloughed. So so far we've been just trying to keep going and keep everybody's spirits up and trying to figure out ways to be creative and thoughtful and of service to the clients when we can't just make a deal and send them off to go do a movie or book a show and have them go perform in front of 20,000 people.”
2020-07-25 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · How I Built Resilience: Jeremy Zimmer of United Talent Agency · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I don't know that in March I could understand or grasp the full impact that it was going to have, but I certainly remember, you know, it was supposed to go to a Lakers game. And I was sort of debating Shaigosh, should I not go? And then the news came out about Rudy Gobert. And then suddenly the game was canceled and boom. And that was the first sign of, wow, they canceled basketball games. Like that seems really a big thing. The season was canceled shortly thereafter. And then, boom, it was hard to comprehend in the beginning.”
2020-07-25 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · How I Built Resilience: Jeremy Zimmer of United Talent Agency · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT