"Tell me about the process of consumption over the years, watching films, watching movies, and how that builds a kind of mental bank that you can pull from as you're writing, as you're shooting films. ..."

"Yeah. And it even goes back to like how are you to your first question about like what are you consuming and all that. It's like how do you remain a student? And we were talking before we started reco..."

"Tell me about your guys work together and we'll talk about the mission statement that you guys wrote early on. And you know what? Let's start there. Let's talk about the mission statement. I never hea..."

"So as you're thinking through what the film's going to be, you read the book, how do you go from I found this novella to a script, choosing what to include, choosing what not to include? Cuz >> I watc..."

"It's happened like four times already. These little nuggets are like I want to throw that right back in. It's a good catchphrase and I think that's outside of like getting deeper into that one thing i..."

"Given that we were adapting this work, you know, anytime we were in the car out in that world, we were listening to the audio book of Train Dreams narrated by Will Patton, who now narrates the film, a..."

"Um, and this very like this more structural thing that now I think is like actually the foundational element and the rest is is how how you're getting that out there. Um, but that thing that just like..."

"You know, my sense is if you looked at the number of words in various screenplays, train Dreams would be all the way to the left side in terms of there's not that many words in the film, but then ther..."

"You talk about the spirit. So I uh you know, pretty outgoing guy, outgoing enough. And uh I uh had just left the theater and I walk over to a bar down the street. It was a sort of bar, coffee shop typ..."

"writing, you got the visuals, you got the sound, you got 363 other things and it is this sort of consilience of different art forms that that that comes together. >> Yeah. No, I do think it is the gre..."

">> Does the word ambition ring a bell in what you're saying or is it something different? >> Sure. I mean, just because I'm a very ambitious person. >> Well, I thought I saw something. I thought I saw..."

"When you're writing, thinking through the early stages of a love story, >> what matters in order to make that story feel real? Because this comes back to that theme of not having it be so over the top..."

">> But even that, I I watched that last night. I thought about that that had this sort of loving sharpness, >> of course, because like they're not like And that's the thing I think it's kind of like a..."

">> Feedback. How do you go about getting feedback at different stages of making a film? like feedback in the scripting. >> We have different answers on this. >> I've evolved >> at the beginning. I adm..."

"Tell me about the piece of advice you guys got early on to beware of having too much dialogue and not to lean on that. What was the thinking behind that? >> Oh, it's a it was a mentor of ours and a go..."

"There was a great like great piece of voiceover that we wrote uh like that was like there's a scene where he's sitting by a lakeside or Grineer sitting by a lakeside after he's like left logging and I..."

"Well, tell me about how you let the story guide you. You know, like at what point, I would imagine you start off this idea of a story and then at some point we're talking about a little bit earlier wh..."

"One interesting uh data point is that of the four films we've released, all four have a different ending than what we started shooting. Huh. I don't know what to make of that. But I think that I think..."

"I think that thing of just like making it all going back to that what we were saying about like not wanting the viewer or the audience to know what is improv and what is written. It's all of a piece a..."

"Let's close here. as you guys think of maxims, mantras that you come back to in your work together, have you developed some or I think that my dad used to always uh which is very annoying when I was a..."