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Ray Bradbury on Madmen | Blank on Blank | PBS Digital Studios
- Published_at:2015-04-28
- Category:Film & Animation
- Channel:Blank on Blank
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- description: "Nobody else is going to give a damn what you're doing, so you need a few other people like yourself" - Ray Bradbury as told to two college kids on road trip in 1972 In the autumn of 2012, Lisa Potts rediscovered -- literally, behind her dresser -- a taped cassette of a long-lost interview with author Ray Bradbury that she made as a college student journalist back in 1972. The recording was made in a car plying the Los Angeles freeways between Bradbury's home in West L.A. and Chapman College in Orange County. Potts and a fellow student named Chadd Coates were taking Bradbury to present a lecture. Bradbury had a lot of advice for Lisa and Chadd. On tape we get to hear Bradbury telling the students about the keys to friendship, why he was afraid of himself and would never drive, his keys to writing and telling a story, why Mars was the center of his fascination, what's the secret to love, and why he called himself "a madman". Ray Bradbury's Advice "You find a few other nuts like yourself, and they're your friends for a lifetime." "That's what friends are, the people who share your crazy outlook and protect you from the world." " I am a dedicated madman, and that becomes its own training." "If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't." "You either feel a story and need to write it, or you better not write it." Get more never before heard excerpts from Ray Bradbury on our website: http://blankonblank.org/interviews/ray-bradbury-interview-on-madmen-writing-farenheit-451-friends-driving Subscribe for new episodes every other Tuesday (it's free): http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=blankonblank Executive Producer: David Gerlach Animator: Patrick Smith Audio Producer: Amy Drozdowska Watch our previous episodes: Dolly Parton on Getting Dirty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RJPc9DXnys Lou Reed on Guns & Ammo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jcd9BS2Ty_M BB King on The Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tIphqWYu_s Elliott Smith on Freaks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAP3sYaaBv4 Robin Williams on Masks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PHGmIAv4Dc Wayne Coyne on Living with Death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJXU7f0hI30 Maya Angelou on Con Men https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VybIJEA41yk Bette Davis on The Sexes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNnTUyrxzWY Michael Jackson on Godliness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoCa3Po7M_8 Jimi Hendrix on The Experience https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK2lfs_uiwk Meryl Streep on Beauty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG_T5dwnJuM Philip Seymour Hoffman on Happiness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Osn8rjkPyYM David Bowie on Stardust http://youtu.be/lFIDXXDsxAo Gene Wilder on The Truth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PUW2POEjX4 John Lennon on Love http://youtu.be/DmvmnYEy9NY Johnny Cash on The Gospel http://youtu.be/ALGi0tcFCcw Heath Ledger on Role Playing http://youtu.be/qDRUzbAa6lI Tupac on Life and Death http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x2FqX2YZws Kurt Cobain on Identity http://youtu.be/C1Z2BkZaOQc Janis Joplin on Rejection http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdF4b1_LQnQ Barry White on Making Love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmJIlqjYGkw Maurice Sendak on Being a Kid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvtgqJTVVhE Carol Burnett on Finding Home http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aixlc1DJZiE Grace Kelly on JFK http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5EOuppHoTM Farrah Fawcett on Stiletto Power http://youtu.be/8Eskff0RUQ8 Beastie Boys on Being Stupid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4mx2P... David Foster Wallace on Ambition http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5R8gd... Wilt Chamberlain on Tall Tales http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxLiVn... Larry King on Getting Seduced http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yD8Pz... Jim Morrison on Why Fat is Beautiful http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhszZ5... Music You Heard Chris Zabriskie "Readers! Do You Read?" Jahzzar "LandH" Jahzzar "Planet Zero"
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