Billions, every mention

#83 Brian Koppelman: What Really Matters May 12, 2020 · 13 mentions

• ▶ 0:00 Brian Koppelman You know, there's a line in Billions where Bobby Axelrod is making a speech to all of Axe Capital, and he says, in the great expanse of time, we're already dead.
• ▶ 1:20 Shane Parrish Today I'm talking with writer and director Brian Koppelman, who's the co-creator of the Showtime show, Billions, and whose film credits include Rounders, Osim's 13, and Solitary Man.
• ▶ 2:56 Shane Parrish I love Billions.
• ▶ 6:26 Brian Koppelman And then I, um, pre-billions, every morning included a long walk, too, of a couple miles to my office, uh, in the making of the show, and then I would walk home at the end of the day.
• ▶ 21:10 Brian Koppelman For every episode of Billions, let's say an episode of Billions, the teleplay is 60 pages. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 23:08 Brian Koppelman On Billions, we have a writer's room. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 33:35 Brian Koppelman David and I started trying to write about them eight years before billions ever happened, and almost did a project about them at HBO, and the last minute didn't happen because of the financial crash of
• ▶ 35:01 Shane Parrish One of the things I love about Billions is that
• ▶ 43:09 Brian Koppelman And it was out of that, that we started writing billions. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 48:34 Brian Koppelman Uh, knowing that the people I love are breathing and living and thriving, and it makes me want to be more expansive, more giving, and more connected, because, you know, there's a line in Billions where Bobby Axelrod is making a speech to…