Brian Grazer: How Curiosity Led to $15 Billion at the Box Office
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Brian Grazer is the award-winning producer of many iconic and successful films and TV shows, like Apollo 13, The Da Vinci Code, A Beautiful Mind, Frost/Nixon, Friday Night Lights, 24, and Arrested Development. More than 40 years ago he co-founded Imagine Entertainment with director Ron Howard. Together their films have made more than 15 billion dollars. In his conversation with Guy, Brain talks about his accidental start in Hollywood, what it was like working there in the early 70s, and the steps he took that helped him advance in the movie industry. He talks about meeting and working with Ron Howard, and what makes their collaboration so successful and enduring four decades later. And he talks about the power of curiosity, a quality he ultimately credits for his creative success, and explores in his best-selling book A Curious Mind.
Links from the Show
01. Night Shift (1982) Movie Trailer
02. Splash (1984) Movie Trailer
03. Bowfinger (1999) Movie Trailer
04. Frost/Nixon (2008) Movie Trailer
05. Brian's book A Curious Mind
06. Brian's and Ron Howard's production company Imagine Entertainment
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