Zachie Marks
director of "The Thing in the Woods Whose Name We Don't Know"
Highlight Bits & Quotes
11The Noah Baumbach Prophecies
The directors recount their surreal private meetings with Noah Baumbach, ranging from him predicting their deaths to showing them fun stills from the Barbie movie.
"Noah said a plague on your house."
"Noah told me I was going to die tonight."
"He just showed me stills from the Barbie movie and talked about how fun it was."
The Wild Man with a Knife Attacks
The prophecy of the 'wild man with a knife' comes true as a camera operator attacks, leading to a chaotic sign-off involving Lululemon and Joe Biden.
"Hey film boy, I got a knife!"
"His parents own Lululemon, my parents own the police!"
"Your parents is Joe Biden!"
Brittle Jones and the Can of Beans
Brittle Jones discusses her film 'Can of Stuff,' revealing the high-concept twist is that the 'stuff' is just beans, while the panel praises the brown lighting as an homage to Pulp Fiction.
"The twist that the stuff was indeed just beans."
"It's not a gold light, it is a brown light showing on people's face."
Zachie Marks and the AD Monster
Zachie Marks explains his horror film where the monster is a metaphor for a bossy neat-freak, eventually realizing the monster is a literal copy of his First AD, Micah.
"The monster was the type of person who says that they're a neat freak but they're actually just bossy."
"I texted her and I said oh my God I'm just realizing I think there's a little bit of you in the monster."
The Art of Cutting Your Own Family
Jeremy explains his 'artistic' choice to cut his cousin entirely out of his film, leaving only his shoulder in frame, because he hates improvisation and values his painstakingly placed commas.
"I ended up having to cut my cousin basically completely out of the film."
"When you're an auteur, you've got to have a colonoscopy at some point with the scripts."
The Invention of Blinds and the Can of Stuff
Brittle Jones describes her inspiration: a mini-fridge and a child in a Ninja Turtles mask, which led to her film about Sarah Deev, the inventor of blinds who kept a mysterious 'can of stuff' in her living room.
"She put a mask on her windows and the way that blinds are that and that leads to can of stuff."
"You refer to walls as up floors."
The Lululemon Corporate Street
Zachie Marks discusses growing up on a working-class street in the Upper West Side that his parents eventually bought and converted into a single, massive Lululemon corporate street.
"My parents bought the street they turned it into a Lululemon Street."
"There's a cortado named after me there."
Everything is Kafkaesque
The directors compete to define mundane activities as 'Kafkaesque,' ranging from picking apples in an orchard to forgetting who you were about to text.
"Doing the dishes is Kafkaesque for me."
"Ordering on Amazon... yes, Kafkaesque."
The A24 Discomfort Summit
The group discusses the upcoming mandatory A24 summit held in the LA Metro where the card machines don't work and the sandwiches are of an unclear temperature.
"We're meeting in the LA Metro but none of the card machines work."
"It's sort of sandwiches with an unclear temperature."
Friends with Medical Benefits
The directors discuss the 'American story' of being on someone else's health insurance, comparing it to sharing a Netflix password but for life-saving medical coverage.
"I was on their insurance like a girl with a Netflix password but it's her insurance."
A24 Under 24 Class of 2024 Introduction
The panel of young, ambitious A24 directors introduces themselves, immediately establishing a pretentious tone of extreme gratitude and the ease of securing multi-million dollar financing.
"Finding $5 million to make a project? Yeah, not a problem."
"I'm feeling gob smacked that I would even get the opportunity to sit down with you guys."