Jeff Schaffer
Jeff Schaffer
Jeff Schaffer is an American film and television director, writer, and producer...
basketball both couple fault felt finally game hard played playing quarters starting trying
We played well. We're finally starting to come together. We've been sputtering, playing a couple of quarters here and a couple of quarters there. Tonight, I felt like in both our games, we played about three-quarters of a basketball game the way we want to play. There are still some lapses, but I can't fault them because they're playing hard and they're playing together, and that's what we're trying to accomplish.
excited
We're from Michigan. We're only excited because it's in Detroit.
flow game knew quarters three
Once the flow of the game went through three quarters and it was nip and tuck, we knew it was going to go down to the end.
below culture experience issue learn people percent poverty understand
We'll have opportunities to experience Appalachian culture and learn why poverty is an issue there. As I understand it, just 7,500 people live there and about 20 percent of them live below poverty level.
experience grow
This is really important to make sense of the experience and to grow from it.
character people together
[In comedy] you never want to leave the actors hanging out to dry. So you need to come up with funny individual stories for each character, and then you do this sort of comedy geometry, weaving them together. Once you've got a funny structure and you know why the scenes are funny, then you get super funny people to say your own lines, say their own lines, say things in their own way, and every scene is a live rewrite in front of the camera.
sports football team
Fantasy football is actually an amazing American pastime, because it takes the ultimate team sport, NFL and football, and turns it into the quest for individual achievement.
mean stuff super-funny
We deal with all the production headaches and all that stuff. They just have to come here and be super funny. And it's worked out well. I mean, literally, every day they're all saying things I'd never thought I'd hear before and just some of the funniest discussions I've ever heard.
running uncles crazy
We don't run out of stories, because of the characters. But also every year, the NFL, like a crazy rich uncle we never see, just drops some stories off at our door.
people want stills
We always want to let people leave with some sort of like, "Great, I want to see more." Not "Oh my God, that's still on?"