finance hit on me today that i don't know i'd be like there was a hit uh...
ok we've got another great interview for you guys time shady act as a writer
director producer rick you might know couple movies he's written and directed
like a center a pet detective and not be professor so also directed liar liar
patch adams bruce almighty and evan almighty
instincts of americans but a senior books
uh... yes i believe they have to have a but and i thank you and i owe them very
much uh...
art you also did the documentary i am with ropes are recently which is amazing
and i were talking about eighty below that yellow you have a little turned out
that there are no question about that with her about why you turn to
so now that obviously is that true isn't enormous head
how did that come about
uh... this script which have been around for about ten years comes along with
space concert at the tech and probably wasn't what you see today it wasn't the
story that you see where the easy she and all that stuff
and i met on it they've got this crazy idea
uh... with a friend of mine eugene liebowitz and we we rewrote it then
hired this guy was an unknown at the time he was
the way kind living color even jim carrey and a lot of people thought we
are crazy cuz he done four five film before any hadn't quite busted out and
it became what it was in june
skyrocketing when eight center broke out it was a totally organic or was there
some like marketing saying cetera that wanda or just people saw their liked and
that's funny and that's it
it's just may make you laugh in fact what we were doing at the studio type it
was
the like going to be a huge bombing that we're gonna go straight to video
uh... nobody knew what we had jim and i just knew we were laughing a lot we
picked a tone that was obviously over the top of the cartoon come alive
and it was just basically really funny was kinda like an ode to joy and and
people respond solicit about the turned to tell you about what happened with
uh... accident
and what they're like
but i got a bike accent for those who don't know
i nearly died had a concussion turned impose concussion syndrome a brutal
condition some people commit suicide on at least rubble is it's really very very
it challenging
and i don't think i was gonna make it
and so i simply said this in the last act
if this is it the last chapter what i wanted to say i'm a filmmaker do i want
to say anything
then i decided to make a movie about what i had discovered and to talk to
people
uh... to see if the principles i had discovered meant anything at all so i
talked to some of the leaders uh... you know in different disciplines and said
you know let's have a conversation about what's really going on in the world
uh... what i've participated in some of the ills and how do we get out of this
mess that worked through
what happens that that
people give city because it dark place in the thing like
suicides only way out
were what do you spirit we go through
well you know it's it's different for different people but it's basically like
a computer that no longer functions your brain essentially being a computer takes
in stimuli knows what to do with it
in northern israel to do with it so these later be very painful any sound
would
would be like a kind of torture like above the high-pitched sound that
for you is just a click in plate for me it was the was deaf
so it is a very isolating disease you find people have to check into hotel
rooms have to leave their families their socialize behind
they have to basically shut the computer down
and nothing
helps but time
and it's the brain is very slow in healing in most cases
he can't appeal but it takes a lot of time so you just feel alone
and you don't have human interaction i didn't i didn't use a cell phone for
three years which actually trial plus
but it's a very isolating debilitating disease
because it's painful some people have severe headaches i just felt like
emergency broadcast system was in my head twenty four hours a day but put
that in your head
for a minute they would be painful if i said now it's never going to go away you
would be you can't become despondent
the main question i i want to ask you this
what did you discover you asshole is incredibly smart people yeah about life
what's essence of life what did you find well you know we have these the reason i
believe in these theories in my heart in that intuitive place there were all
brothers and sisters that everything's connected all those things
but what i didn't know was there was the time of
excuse me scientific evidence to back that up
from the field of quantum physics to uh... cellular biology
uh... to what they're discovering a positive psychology their is a time of
scientific evidence to prove that what our state since ages in mystics have
intuitive all along is actually the meat in a row
of reality to me
it's simply is simply semantics i'll use the word god i'm not afraid use word out
that i don't believe in the guy with the bearded i've got to me is another word
for missed resource like how did it all starts what's making me speak what is
that thing right
i called is called mystery
so you go through the zipper please see in the movie you talk to these
incredibly smart people from all these different fields
african having gone through this and you get rid of your big houses in your
excess and all that stuff in
are you happy or not
uh... yes absolutely
no question that happiness is just a measure of a system working well
and i think were designed to work
in concert with other people in community
uh... in-service to feel part of something greater than ourselves and so
i'm doing those things and so consequently yet i'm mike much happier
that you it's all good gota hollywood parties are you done with that uh...
given a guilty pleasures
uh... until i go to hollywood parties by dan recently to a couple hundred party
they found out something very very interesting which is
these are not interest me because i don't think
highways as authentic or interesting
so i really don't care about grosses in what movies are making my cousin
interest me out like this conversation so now that i've become more of this
conversation when i go to hollywood parties this conversation comes to me
i think if i stood there in said i write the square footage that i've chosen is
right my lifestyle as a right was selling your wrong i don't think my
present really responded that's interesting i worked on that trip is a
lot of all right your honor reactor exploded project k joshy that great
congress anyone really appreciated thanks for having vacation