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What unites Seth Rogens work is a vibe equal parts soulful, sweet, and stoner.
Well, maybe not how they became famous, but about the thing that set them on their journey.
Then there are people who dont quite know why they chose the story theyre telling.
Its just, I have a strong feeling this is the story I should tell you.
That conversation changes the course of her life.
He changed her life, and it was a result of him being a nice dude in general.
How did you pick your guests?A few different ways.
Some people I know, and Im inherently interested in.
So, yeah, they come to me through different ways.
When we wroteSuperbad, I was so young.
I had none of the baggage of, Do other people care about this?
Is there better stories to be telling?
It was just, Ill just tell my own story.
That was all we knew.
So thats something Ive always been imploring people.
No one has lived their whole life without one interesting thing that happened to them.
Im sure you probably have a few, if youre really thinking about it.
That was something that was instilled into my creative development from a young age, I think.
The book I wrote [Yearbook,a collection of personal essays] was the first iteration of that.
And when it comes to my writing of screenplays, I truly do not write without Evan.
I was just getting antsy, you know?
So I was working on these chapters when I started to realize,I bet everyone has these.
BetweenYearbookand the podcast, it feels like youre doing a lot of looking back with these projects.
Do you figure youre aging into a more retrospective phase in your career?Probably!
Im not doing anything interesting anymore.
Im just a rich guy living in the Hills who never leaves the house.
There are loads of movies and books about that.Yeah, but they all suck!
Part of it is just self-awareness that my life is uninteresting now.
It is objectively not something I would watch if it was dramatized back to me.
I dont know where itll go, but if we stayed here, Id be totally fine.
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