film. A a major mainstream film, but it was really a cult film. So, it needed to have a cult it needed to be done as an offbeat indie film, but it had a major budget with major stars in it, and the mainstream was never going to quite pickup on it. That's what I felt, but if you're in the middle of it, you don't Yeah. you don't you're just trying to
His counterpart in Britain, Margaret Thatcher, I've read-- and is it true-- that she put on a performance of the parrot sketch? Very offbeat . A sort of Larry David type of thing.
Other people would do that. But I could suggest maybe the more offbeat sources that had credibility, or the more interesting ones that were not necessarily the biggest following, but maybe had influence in areas that the founders or some of the executives would care about.
Or is there something other than that? Is there something that is offbeat ? You know how the flower people and the hippies respond in the United States?
Because sometimes we think about comedy as being all about timing and pace and quick snaps or props, in a way. There's a kind of a deadpan offbeatness about this comedy. So what do you mean when you say be patient with it?
were actually holding. And so how do we give ourselves not just permission, but also build accountability with peers to do some of that investigation? So I think for anyone doing anything that's a bit offbeat or unusual, having that core group of support people that can normalize your reality
But he's dangerous, also-- very, very dangerous. There's one thing which I have noted in your movies-- very offbeat .
So that's how novel and weird this was. And to go back to your original question, Jim Henson brought something so offbeat and original that that's part of why "Sesame Street" was so new and so transformative, and why it's so connected with little kids.
Now she's in a current website called Rejected Princesses. And this is all about women who are too awesome, awful or offbeat to be featured in a kids' movie. This is a still from the remade "Cosmos." Did anybody see the original "Cosmos" series with Carl Sagan?
And there's a long tradition of doing that and looking at where life and art sometimes overlap. So we're going to talk a little bit about that today, how you made this eccentric, offbeat movie. And I guess we could go back to-- well, as many years as we want to because you guys have been friends for how many years?
and I hate that we've been socialized into doing this when we watch films, but you're searching for where to place that character. So what was it like for you bringing that person to life, who was also deeply multi-dimensional and could have been the offbeat , maybe artsy kid, also possibly a skater, but also super smart and headed off to Stanford in the fall.
At the same time, I mean, there is the infrastructure that is needed for the booming economy, for the booming market of the digital economy. to another planet, settlers as well as explorers, it's for me also a way to have an offbeat , I would say, glance