Grazer: Meeting Ol' Dirty Bastard led to producing the film '8 Mile'
Brian Grazer · Brian Grazer: Scale your curiosity | Masters of Scale · Aug 29, 2023 · at 23:19
Film producer Brian Grazer discusses how an open-ended curiosity meeting with Wu-Tang Clan's Ol' Dirty Bastard overcame his skepticism of hip-hop and sparked the creation of '8 Mile'.
0:00 / 0:06exact quote · 6.8s
▶ Watch the full episode on YouTube → 720p mp4 · rendered on demand · StarZero watermark
“By meeting this one guy, it got me to ultimately make the movie Eight Mile with Eminem.”
quote is from the automated transcript, cleaned for reading: filler sounds and stutters are removed, nothing is rephrased. names can be misheard (the analysis reads context, assessments check outside sources). how →
More from Brian Grazer
Grazer: Industry Rejection Proves That 'Nobody Knows Anything'
“The dumbest idea in Hollywood, known by all, got made and turned out to be a critical darling, and I got nominated for an Oscar, and I thought, wow, that means nobody knows anything. Whether it's movie story or a tech story or a consumer story.”
Grazer: Gatekeepers in film and tech don't know what will succeed
“The dumbest idea in Hollywood known by all got made and turned out to be a critical darling, and I got nominated for an Oscar, and I thought, wow, that means nobody knows anything. Whether it's movie story, or a tech story, or a consumer story.”
Grazer: Prepare for networking meetings by offering a tailored gift or insight
“So I come with some sort of gift to them. I did that with Jay-Z as well. I try to find out the thing that they care about on a human and business level that they might not be given And I could provide it.”
Grazer: Tom Hanks was cast in 'Splash' partly due to nervous fidgeting
“Part of Tom Hanks getting the job in Splash was his nervous, crazy nervous whacking of a pencil while he was talking, and he still does that, actually.”