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I'm interested in hearing how you all
settled on your subjects I mean Rashida
you haven't even more in that connection
to your subject cuz the film was about
your father
Quincy Jones growing up did you have
feeling he was sharing him with the
world and did that play into the
decision to make this film oh yeah
absolutely I mean me and all of my
siblings and anybody who's ever loved
him shares him with the world and that's
part of loving him I think the reason I
wanted to make this is because he is
well documented there's actually really
kind of extensive pieces on him but he's
so accomplished that you never get to
actually spend time with him in any of
those pieces because you have to cover
the decades of success that he's had but
what they've missed is that the reason
he's had that success is there is
something inherently personal about it
so who he is in his private life and who
he is when he connects with people is
precisely the thing that you know kind
of incites his success also hard work
and talent but it is one of the many
things I did he need any encouragement
to open himself and the rest of your
family up to the cameras he was very
very generous he loved it actually he
liked everything except being miked up
every day he hated that but he's happy
to be done with that but he was like you
know many times we would think we were
done filming for the day and he be like
aren't you coming in to the hotel like
3:00 in the morning 4:00 in the morning
he was very generous and he also said I
don't want to see anything until you're
done which to me I mean the
complications with knowing your subject
is that they're gonna have some sort of
like micromanaging control over you know
the story you tell and he did not do
that at all and that's probably the only
reason I did it
music it's not just an afterthought it's
it's kind of really part of the fabric
of these movies you know I was just I
was just thinking when you're speaking
like I feel so lucky because I you know
had this incredible catalogue just
available to us that we should have used
and did use I mean not none of the music
in the movie is not somehow leads back
to Quincy and so to have somebody who's
created music that expressed a certain
emotion and then to be able to pair that
with an emotional moment in his in his
life is a real huge blessing that being
said it's span so many decades and
there's so many different types of
genres and so the music selection became
essential to the storytelling because
you know it can be anything from the
Sanford and Son theme song to you know
soldiers in the rain which is this
really emotional piece that he did and
to make sure that the that the kind of
stop and start like the the gears of the
movie felt right it did all kind of end
up being predicated on on the music
collection for sure when you've got the
greatest so much music there's so much
music
I can't imagine at the end of the film
when it tells you how many albums who's
worked on it shows that it would take
the rest of your life to listen to it
all I know I know but it's also great
you know Barriss Bennett
what was the biggest influence growing
up that may have shaped your point of
view as a filmmaker I watched a lot of
TV growing up and again I feel like it's
the storytelling aspects any film by
Mike Nichols was the reason I wanted to
become a filmmaker because it doesn't
matter who the people were in his movie
there's pathos and heart and
intelligence a reason I thought it was
maybe be a good idea to to make Quincy
which I saw this movie still bill about
Bill Withers that I thought was so
tender and it was such a great balance
of a personal story and educating people
who weren't fans of his I just was
really moved by that movie what's the
first thing you do when you were a path
film I mean I'm sorry this sounds really
corny but probably just like a drink oh
and I definitely had a couple beers
after we finished last night nice
release Dailey I'm rashida Jones thanks
for watching thanks for watching thank
you for watching
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