Anthony Bourdain's High Standards

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Morgan Fallon (@diamondmofallon) is a nine-time-Emmy-nominated executive producer, director, and cinematographer. He was born and raised in New England and studied film at Emerson College in Boston. After graduating, he spent three years working for his mentor, director Michael Mann, and in 2007, he began a long-term working relationship with producers Chris Collins and Lydia Tenaglia and their New York-based production company, Zero Point Zero Productions.
Through his tenure at ZPZ, Morgan focused primarily on work with ZPZ creative partner Anthony Bourdain on several episodic series and documentaries produced by Bourdain, including the Emmy-winning Mind of a Chef, the theatrically distributed documentary The Last Magnificent, and the Emmy-, Peabody-, PGA-, TCA-, and ACE-award-winning series Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, which Morgan shot, directed, and produced throughout the series’ one-hundred-and-three-episode run.
Currently, he is a director and executive producer for the Emmy-winning series United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell.
He lives in California with his wife and production partner, Gillian Brown, and his two children.
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Tim Ferriss is one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and an early-stage tech investor/advisor in Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ other companies. He is also the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef, Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors. The Observer and other media have named him “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of his podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, which has exceeded 500 million downloads and been selected for “Best of Apple Podcasts” three years running.
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[@levilevikoo3708]

Tim you pulled me out off depression railway back at 2019.
I haven’t fully healed but I’m almost there brother!
You started my journey, my biggest dream is to interview you!

[@Danny-mt5os]

Same for me as well. Around the same time as you. Life is much better man, wait until you find curiosity in the mundane things. You will enjoy life

[@cartergomez5390]

I want to share a beautiful park that will get you out of depression when you watch it (still have to look it up on TH-cam myself). The name is Kuju Flower Park, and it has many kinds of flowers, overlooking the Kuju Mountains and located 15 kilometers east of Kurokawa Onsen.

[@markofsaltburn]

In the arts, there is no necessary correlation between effort and perfectionism on one hand, and the highly subjective and almost intangible phenomenon of aesthetic quality on the other. There are directors just as meticulous as Michael Mann whose films are terrible, and, conversely, film makers such as Roberto Rossellini, Robert Bresson, Jean Luc Godard, Éric Rohmer or Gillo Pontecorvo who embrace chance, collaboration and accident, and who are, in my personal opinion and the opinion of many others, much more successful as artists than either Mann or Cameron.
Perfectionism is an input, not an outcome. Either of those modern directors probably know that for all of their time, money, technical resources and creative control, they will never make a film about human conflict or struggle as good as “Rome: Open City” or “The Battle of Algiers”, the kind of films that inspired them to directors in the first place.

[@jnny7182]

This!

[@RobbertLobik]

'Perfectionism is an input, not an outcome' - Very clever, thank you

[@machina_aeterna]

Very good clip. I read a paper that supported the idea that people who have high standards for others typically have even higher standards for themselves.

[@AdicaRoy]

This is a very interesting topic, especially as someone who has made careers in both the food sphere and in entertainment. I would like to posit that it’s worth examining whether or not the value of being an “asshole” in order to get projects like “Titanic” or “Miami Vice” accomplished have enough utility to then humans involved or the humans viewing them to justify the behavior / culture they “require” in order to get them done. And I do believe there are complex, multi-faceted answer to that - they certainly made careers and taught rigorous skills, which do have utility for the folks involved,. But I still question the need to refer to an editor in writing as an asshole, while acknowledging that a person can be very direct and specific whilst also coming from a place of deeply caring about human beings. I think I bristle at the justification of certain culture on sets as being necessary to create certain projects, as it implies the value of the projects is greater than the value of treating people with respect. Worth further nuanced discussion IMO.

[@hillfarm7044]

Any other moms with sons that live with bipolar, figure out after hearing his Emerson college acceptance story that this talented creative must deal with bipolar before he mentioned it?

[@kurtz9977]

I love you Tim Ferris ; I’ll pitch our web3 healthcare , sustainability and edtech startup to ya - mushroom 🍄inspired

[@alf.2929]

Unfortunately, his high standards stops at the women he meets.