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Julia Louis-Dreyfus

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first: 2017-03-20
most recent: 2017-03-20
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“And smart way. And I think with some of Trump, we need a little bit of distance and we don't have that distance yet. So one of the things that's good is we are still a show about politics. We have a congressman, but we are not, thank God, in the White House. So hopefully while you will see Selena acting as horrible as she always does as a former president of the United States doing things that you see other former presidents doing, Bush painting, Jimmy Carter building houses.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Which obviously shocked a lot of people who thought she would either win or be vice president again. And again, that just felt like being there, done that. So the idea was that she would lose the presidency, which she did. And then as it turned out, obviously, as the Obamas are moving into their private life, we'll see Selena moving into her private life. And I am hoping and excited to see some of the similarities of things he's doing and the stories we're doing. Now, obviously somewhere along the way this Trump thing happens. So the good news, I think, for us is because we're not Saturday Night Live. We're not going to basically, Trump's not going to say something one week and we're going to write it in. I think we do our best when we sort of think about stuff and then are able to comment on it a little bit later. Like, for example, in the Thai season last year, we did a sort of a recount in Nevada, which was sort of our mini version of Florida, but obviously doing it many years later where we're able to really sort of talk about what it was and hopefully comment on it in a really fun way.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“To me, once she's president, and this is not a criticism, but even during that little period where she was president, it's not that it's harder. It's just sort of like, I think it starts to strain a little, or used to strain a little bit of credibility, where you kind of start to go with these people who are Nincom poops working for her survive in the White House. Now, maybe now all bets are off. But back when we were making these decisions, the notion of moving away and kind of getting into the world of being a former present, which I thought would be fun and drive her crazy, was sort of the big decision that she would lose.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Cliffhanger, if you will, and then that's where I took over. So when I first sat down with Julia and the HBO people and Frank Rich, who's one of the other exec producers, they sort of showed me this tie and sort of said this is where you'd be starting. And as I started to think about and what got me excited was the first sort of decision I made was that she was going to lose. The presidency was something she wanted more than life itself, and that if she won the presidency, it would be lovely, but the show would be over as far as I was concerned, which was fine.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, I was just going to say, I mean, look, clearly the Trump thing changes everything, whether you love him or hate him. I'll simply say, you know, I think one of the things which obviously happened unrelated to Trump, unrelated to Hillary losing, was from the moment, I think you all know this, is the show was created by Armando Yanucci, and he did the first four seasons, and then he left with the tie as the...”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, I know that that has been a challenge, like trying to then think about what the next stupid thing that they would do after the stupid thing you're making up is I think that has been a challenge, but other than that, I'll let you speak to the sort of umbrella.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Sat Historically, I'll let the one thing I'll say, because I think Dave would be able to speak to this a lot better than I would about how you map something out, like something like this out. But historically throughout the show, one thing that I have noticed is that during every writing period, the writers will all get in a room and think of what the stupidest thing a politician could do but hasn't done is. And then in between, when we shoot that and when it airs, somebody actually does that. Or we air, and then they do it. And then they're like, oh, you guys just stole that from like, no, we actually thought what the stupidest thing would be.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Satire, right? So, how do you do that when life is more ridiculous than that? How do you guys think of that? Because Jonah is, there's a lot of congressmen like Jonah at this point, or many, many, many, many like them.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, how do you, when you're writing, I work a little bit with the Silicon Valley people, and I tell them things, and then it appears, and everyone goes, oh, how funny? And I'm like, no, that actually happened. Or around, I was talking about the Nazi, the billionaire comparing his plight to the Jews being persecuted by the Nazis. And they laughed. I'm like, no, no, it happened. It's kind of thing. And so how do you, in this new era, when you're writing, what is it, a what do you call essentially a...”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“All right, okay, so let's move into Trump. So here you are writing a show. It's not totally mocking. You were saying people thought you were joking about a lot of things. These people couldn't be this stupid. And here we are. You have one congressman talking about that we need to, more white people need to breed. Like every day, there's a new, like, essentially I open my Twitter, I'm like, what fresh hell is going to unleash itself upon me from the government? From wherever, everywhere across the government, and you can't, it is almost like a show, it's like, oh, now they're firing the guy from New York who seemed passively competent.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“$68 million deal to write both their memoirs, much like other former presidents. Selena has a deal to write her book. I will simply say it's a lot less than $68 million. She's not happy about that. And she doesn't really like writing books. So it's possible that someone might need to help write that book, and I'll leave it at that. All right.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The season starts with Mike at home, unemployed with some kids, with kids. He's got twins from the surrogate and the seven-year-old Ellen, and we'll get to see what that's a little bit like. And I'll simply say that Selena, much like I'm sure you all saw that the Obamas just signed like a”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We were talking about this backstage because we had a premiere or a finale party last year. And Hugh Lori was there with us. And I've never seen a human being laugh harder at anything. Then Hugh Lori laughing at Matt with that giant baby, with that seven-year-old girl, three-year-old and a baby Bjorn. I'm six”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“People are like, this guy's worse than Mike McClintock. Well, I just laugh at Tim's character because I think of his journey, like living with his mom and having roommates and having a shitty website. How small minded and petty and terrible of a human being he is, and now he's in the nation's Congress. But Mike McClintock, when Dave came in last season, he took the show over and he had some breakfast with us. And I remember Dave kind of setting out, he's like, what I like about Mike is he has a very specific job, like him at the podium was sort of a great anchor for the writers or specifically Dave's like I get, I want to make sure that you have a job and that your function is clear. Like that was something he said up from the beginning, which I really liked Mike in the press room because I pictured him knocking around in anonymity forever and getting beaten upon and all of a sudden he's on television every day and he gets a little power and a little exposure, which of course is overwhelming. And the other part of Mike I really enjoyed is that he has a personal life. Like he has a wife.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“A little bit of that, and also. Sort of that much fun. Although perfectly he rises exactly, that's what happens on the show. What about the press secretary? Now, you played press secretary and doing press. Now we have a press secretary who's become a comic object.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right. To him, it's just what he was expecting. But in some ways, if you think about Selena losing and all the people working for her, not only being out of work, but also being branded with having worked for Selena Meyer, I think that's one of the things that you're going to see at the beginning of this season of sort of where everyone has landed with the sort of, it's a real thing in Washington, which is when you're the losing side, you're branded as a loser. And what work can you find? Is it time to head into the private sector? And you're going to see a little bit of that. And also, if you want to stay in politics, who will hire you? And I think there's some of that too. And of course, oddly, Jonah Rises, which is sort of that much fun. Although perfectly here.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, still in Congress. No, it's super fun to be a dummy with power. That's a really fun thing to do. And especially when he starts getting a win here there. And one of the things I do like about it is that this is always the life that he predicted for himself. This exactly fits in with his worldview and his five and ten-year plans. So it's of no surprise to him. Right.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He was kind of our model into this season, which is even though a house, not Senate, was the idea that Jonah. Last year became a congressman, and that he would become the most like cruise of the most hated guy in the Senate, that Jonah would be the most hated guy in Congress. That was kind of our guiding line. Guiding bite.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right. And that People Now it's just in the Don't tell a loan company. We have Ted Cruz, who is one of the most universally despised men who ass backwards fell into power because a bunch of dummies thought he was smart. And so you have this idiot who all of a sudden gets power. And so there was one of the most wonderful quotes about Ted Cruz was that you could murder him. He is so disliked.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That storyline I loved because there is, because as ridiculous as it is to think that someone like Jonah could be elected in Congress, I would actually argue at this Jonah wouldn't even crack the bottom 50%. I think the House of Representatives.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Inst Twitter feed lit up so much with like Okay, so we do this thing where we'll always do like a little quick rehearsal and then we'll block it for the production crews they can see where we're going and they can see the lighting. That rehearsal was fucking packed. You have never seen so many people at a rehearsal. Like everyone in production had slammed themselves into this tiny room to watch beautiful method walk around.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, yeah. So, talk about the last season, how you guys looked at the last season, each of you. So you had the arc that you become a congressman and then you hire handsome men to work in your office and misbehave, essentially. They were very handsome, by the way.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In my head a little bit. I feel like the phone company is going to make you binge. I feel like that's coming for you. Probably? Yeah, absolutely. So let's talk a little bit about the show itself. End of that season, Selena loses the presidency in the oddest way possible, although, again, it doesn't seem that odd.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Ours has sort of a narrative obviously across the 10 episodes, but I do think if I was writing Veeep for binge watching, there'd be a lot more Not cliffhangers, but sort of a little more of a throw from the end of any given episode to the next episode where often in a season of Veep, there's a through line and these things are happening, but it's almost like I would almost be moving things from the beginning of the next episode to the end of the first episode to kind of I think it's incumbent upon you to kind of, why should I watch the next one beyond just it's good a little bit? At least that would be in my head a little bit.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I love the anticipation. Yeah, the anticipation is important. I binge watch. I especially like binge watching for something that I've missed, meaning if I didn't watch it, if I come late to whatever House of Cards or whatever that I can catch up in three days if I want to. But I do miss the notion of here's an episode and now you have to wait, which I realize goes against.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm actually a halfway fan of it. I think that there are diminishing returns. Like to watch four or five episodes of something in a row, I think is detrimental to your enjoyment. It's like that third one that you think is a good idea is never a good idea. You just feel awful and you don't focus on it. And so you miss things. And I remember, I did watch the entire season, the first season of House of Cards in a matter of three days. And some of those middle episodes, I literally could not tell you what happened even after watching them. I'm much more of a person that thinks things that should be just be released three at a time or two at a time. Because I think there is something nice about the conversation around. I love anticipation.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“For our show, I do Sunday nights, and that was a nice Sunday night ritual with my wife, and we would knock off two hours of television. But I love binge watching, especially when somebody turns you on to something that you should have watched. Four years ago”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But I do think, like, I guess I'm hoping down the line, the one thing that does happen is somewhere along the line, and again, obviously competition, so this service is going to have these shows and this service is going to have these shows, but that you will get to a point where the fact that you don't have HBO isn't a problem. Do you know what I mean? That if you want to see Veep, you can see Veep. We will get to a point where you can just say out loud, I want to see Veep in one way or another, it will be in front of you. Alexa. I know that, though, for all television, that none of this will matter. Yeah, exactly. That's the goal and speak to it. And AI continues to be, I guess, a good thing in the sense of if you're making a show that people will get to see it if they choose to see it. And again, I guess I keep hoping that”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But it is little moments, and I do think last year, and I don't know how you guys watch, and maybe I'm completely wrong, there was something really cool about Sunday evenings Game of Thrones Silicon Valley Veep, if you were home on a Sunday, that was, I'm not going to say it was Must Seed TV, but it felt as close to like a pretty cool two-hour block of television that you kind of wanted to sit there for, but I do know from looking at numbers, people did do that, but so many people just did it when they did it during the week. And I guess that's the one thing.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I actually just, real quick, I actually do think that there is such a thing as must see TV only in that if you look at Game of Thrones or things like that, people are so worried about it being whatever it is being ruined even by the East Coast, West Coast time changes. Few and fewer.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Which is over, yeah. From those two diverting paths, I assume that the negative future is sort of like everybody's in their own wormhole. Like you just keep going down and down and down and pursuing your singular passion, whereas boy, I sound old, but in the old days there were four networks and you could go to school and everybody kind of saw this. Sort of how we bumped into each other in the television marketplace, if you will. So it seems like the downside is with all the options and all the wonderful TV is more fractured sort of American experience perhaps. Right.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't think about if it's the phone company. I don't know. I don't let it affect it. I think maybe just because trying to censor whatever it is you're going to do before you've even started or trying to, at least me personally trying to write toward a certain thing that maybe somebody will buy will probably just make it shitty. And so then I just, I don't know, I don't think about it at all. And especially if the phone company buys this, I don't think that'll affect the day-to-day of what Jonah Ryan does. He'll still be terrible. So, like, there is that thing whenever I hear it, that's just a bunch of rich people in a room kind of grunting at each other, and I really don't think about it.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right, I know, right? But when you think about that, how do you look at your, and I want to get to the show itself, like what's going on this season, because I thought this last season was fantastic. And it honestly, I was talking to people that were running House of Cards too. They can't keep up with reality, actually. I mean, your reality seems more normal than the reality that's happening right now, essentially. But how do you imagine storytelling developing or being an actor going forward? Because you all make content at the same time as perform it.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We're often the camera's moving, so we're over here during the funny line, or maybe we're worried that the line is maybe a little written, maybe in a good way, so we're going to go way back there and put a piece of that speaker in it to just kind of, it'll take a little bit of the edge off the baump-bump of the joke. And so that very notion would be ruined if all of a sudden you're strapping on something onto your heads and coming up really close for the joke. There's a rhyme and a reason to sort of our world. But I do think there are stories to come, not necessarily Veep or shows to come where you could completely see how that would work. I do think a lot of times the tech arrives before they figure everything out. So I think what we're seeing right now, obviously with the...”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What would interactive be like? I think it'd be awful. I don't know. I just can't imagine. Who would want to be in a room with us? Don't get me wrong. I think there'd be something really neat about going into our stages and do like 360 digital photos and allow you to visit our sets and things like that and sort of see what we do or how we do it. And so maybe even like the making of aspect is really fascinating. But the notion of, I guess, I don't know, just sort of like being up close to these scenes and whatever, there's rhythms, there's reasons we fall back sometimes. There's sometimes we purposely do very long shots. There's reasons sometimes we often in very deep-like to shoot through stuff, to be sort of on odder angles or to be away from the joke, which is a very deep thing, which is to say on a lot of shows, standard sitcom, we're going to cut to you saying the funny line on V.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think there is when it comes to tech and entertainment, there is that thing of, I understand, somebody would want to do that, but so much of what we do is based on the choices that we make for a viewer to see or a choice that we make as a character to what to reveal or what not to reveal. And the fact that you're turning some of that over is a little bit disconnecting. And also, how do you properly, like, if it was going to be in VR or whatever, which I know is what a lot of people talk about, but I don't necessarily know how you can really build a story in that. Entertainment has become...”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I use it too. One time my wife stopped using them because she had to stop at the grocery store real quick when she came out was clear that the dude had smoked weed in the car while she was in the store.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think there's new blood and also just the willingness that you can go, hey, we want to do a weird show about blank and someone goes, absolutely. And they need a new show. They need shows. So there's a willingness, which is wonderful.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think also a certain willingness to experiment. So it's not just the number of shows, but their willingness to not stick to the rules that have basically all but destroyed the networks. I mean, in some cases they're still hiring some of those old network people where you kind of show up at Amazon and go, or not specifically Amazon, but you show up at one of these places. And it's like, oh, you're here now. But in general.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Guess the positive thing is it affords a lot of places for talented actors to get work. Like a lot of my friends are on other channels and other shows that, and they're good. There's a lot of good shows on some of these newer platforms. I don't know.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So that's, I guess, one level of it. But on a broader level, when you guys think about actors, when you're thinking about how tech is impacting your business, you've got now Amazon doing things, you've got Netflix doing things, Google's getting the business, Apple suddenly is funding shows. How do you think of your business now going forward when you have all these big tech companies, which aren't the traditional ones moving into the space and actually eventually taking over it, presumably?”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But we also had them getting into the helicopter And that shot will haunt me to the end of my days. I hate it. It looks weird and flat and not sort of what I wanted to be. And so it drives me crazy, but there was nothing I could do about it. By the time... We got into the building and the special effects and whatnot, it was sort of like, well, that's how it was set up and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And that's the part where it scares me. So that's, I guess, one level of it.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And it's so hard. And sometimes it works, and I will also tell you, sometimes it doesn't. And it's that idea that later on it doesn't, that sort of, I guess, scares me and drives me crazy. And again, I'm talking very specifically about special effects tech right now, which obviously a guy like John Favreau, he made an entire movie with one kid walking around on a green screen. And we've done good stuff. We did in our finale last year, we had them getting out of a helicopter that didn't exist. And it was really impressive looking.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT