Documentary_Justin Wilkes_Social
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00:00you know, looking, looking at Jim and looking at his creative output. And while he didn't have a
00:05premonition that he was going to die young in any way, shape or form, he had this just constant
00:10engine, internal engine of, he had to keep creating, he had this sort of insatiable
00:16curiosity. And even in the moments, and there were like any artist moments of, you know, struggle
00:21trying to first get his ideas out there first trying to launch a Muppet Show, which took decades
00:27before that came to fruition. When he finally got into feature film, something he'd always wanted
00:31to do. It wasn't just a walk in the park for him and he had some failure with that too.
00:35He always kept it fun. And for someone who worked around the clock and was flying everywhere and,
00:41you know, doing all the things, versions of all the things we do as producers and directors,
00:46he would just bring a levity to everything. And when you hear so many people in the archive and
00:50even present day interviews just talk about what Jim meant to them, it all came from that place of
00:55he would just light up a room, you know, he would just make you smile, even if it was one in the
00:58morning and we were still trying to get the shot. And we just always took that advice because it's,
01:03you know, it's easy to get grumpy when you're working around the clock and it's easy to get
01:08grumpy when you're up against a deadline and then you see what he was able to create and just the
01:13beauty of that and all the people he was able to inspire. There was a lot of inspiration from that.