Hannah: Was I supposed to be talking to the camera this whole time and I screwed up?
John: No, no, you can talk to me and the camera Hannah: And Hank!
John: The nice thing about, yes Hannah: Hi Hank
John: Hi Hank Hannah: I just wanna meet Hank, though.
I haven’t met Hank. John: I know!
Hannah: So I’m excited this video somehow involves him?
John: Yeah, he’ll see it. Hannah: awesome
John: Other people might too. Hannah: Oh. That part scares me.
I’m scared about the comments. You know I’m a little scared about the comments.
John: Oh, they’ll be nice. I don’t want to overhype them,
but in general, our people are nice.
Hannah: I wouldn’t be able to do this video if you didn’t have such great fans because
I would be too scared of the wrath of the comments.
John: Good Morning Hank it’s Tuesday. I am joined by Hannah Marks,
the director of the Turtles All the Way Down movie.
And, thank you Hannah for directing this movie. You’ve only made one movie--
Hannah: True John:--when
you first interviewed to be the director.
John: Hannah came into this meeting with these producers and studio people
and she showed us what a thought spiral would look and feel like and it was incredible.
Hannah: I feel like that was the first thing that you and I really agreed on which
was that her brain is the conflict of this movie, which we’ve really never seen before,
and its such a hard thing to tackle because it’s invisible,
right? It’s not tangible. John: So…
Hannah: We can talk about me
directing you yesterday. John: Oh, God. So Hannah,
what was it like directing me, John Green, the world’s worst actor.
Hannah: It was bliss. Total bliss. And joy. He was terrific.
He needs to stop saying he’s a terrible actor. He’s a great actor.
Spoiler, he does squats in the movie. He literally squats.
John: I mean I’d better not do squats in the movie,
I did squats in one take.
Hannah: Oh that’s. . . John: As a joke for you.
Hannah:No that’s gonna be in the final cut. Actually, I can’t guarantee that
will be in the final cut. It will be in the director's cut.
John: Well I am gonna. I’m gonna have one note for the studio.
Hannah: I joined TikTok just for John’s account. John: But now you’re all in. You’re mostly
getting dogs. Hannah: Yep
John: I have almost no dogs on my for you page Hannah: Well, can we even be friends then?
My mom has really good advice for people. John: Yep
Hannah:She said to not marry anyone unless they like The Beatles and dogs.
John: hmmmm… It’s a good rule.
Hannah: What do you think about that?
John: I think it’s pretty good, it reminds me of an important question though.
Hannah: oh no, did I just set myself up for the Beatles question?
John: God, I mean everybody’s seen it already. Hannah: But I forgot the bit.
Is there a bit? John: Who’s
your favorite Beatle? Hannah: Post watching this new documentary
that came out, Paul McCartney. Before that, John Lennon
John: So your favorite Beatle used to be John Lennon?
Hannah: I think he was just maybe the most famous. Not to take away from his sound.
John: Sure. He’s my favorite Beatle.
And then, do you have a favorite color? Hannah: (extended pause)
Green. What is the Beatles bit? I still don’t know.
John: I think you’re confused because the bit is so bad,
you can’t believe that’s the whole bit.
But that is it. There is no second layer.
Hannah: I really like it, but do you want to know my real favorite color?
John: Yeah Hannah: It's orange, and you know this,
because that is the cover of the book, it’s the orange spiral.
So then, this is really silly but for good luck whenever
I was interviewing for the job for Turtles, I wore orange nail polish, or an orange shirt.
I know that’s so silly, but it made me feel better.
John: And the color palate of this movie,
without giving anything away, carries some of that forward.
Hannah: Definitely. I think there’s pops of orange and teal
because those are the two colors
of Aza and Daisy’s cars which I really really liked.
John: There are a million things that are wonderful
about having you direct the movie, but one of them is that all these
little choices that we made, that like Julie, my editor and I made,
very consciously and carefully to see those choices
loved and cared for and expanded upon by you in all the choices you’ve made
around the movie has just been amazing.
Hannah: Oh, thank you. It’s just because I love the book so much.
I mean, I came into this being such a huge fan of the book.
John: We gotta go. We gotta go.
This is way too late, we gotta go by. Say Hank I’ll see you on Friday
Hannah: Me? Hank, I’ll see you on Friday. Will I actually?
John: No. (laughing) Hannah: I don’t know how this works!