What do you like about this office?
Well, I didn't want to be in a high-rise. I didn't want to be on a studio lot. And I wanted to be on the only street that feels like I'm in New York. This is a street you can walk around. This is a street that has 17 restaurants. You have a doctor, you have a dentist, you have CVS. So, it keeps all of our executives here. It feels like New York. I like the sound. I like the beautiful noise. And the trouble is I'm renting. I've been trying to buy this for 20 years. So, we bought a building three doors, four doors down, which we're renovating. And so we're going to move, I don't know, end of December or January.
So, give me the story behind this.
Well, every painting or every graphic in the whole office is the art of making art. But this is a Salvador Dalí, and you can see this is a stage of an opera and they're all performing. And Billy Rose, when he had the Billy Rose Theater, had Salvador Dalí do seven paintings and then the building burned down and he went back to Salvador Dalí and said, 'Can you redo it?' And he said, 'Sorry.' And Billy Rose drove him crazy. He said, 'I'll do one.' So he did this one. This is a 1780 Flemish painting. And the reason that I was attracted to it is they're trying to sell the painting just like we're trying to sell television shows. So, they're talking, if you look at it, they're talking to somebody out here and they're pitching, you know, like BoJack Horseman. Everything we've looked at except for Goofy over there is about that.
No, there isn't. I just was hanging around and somebody put it up there.
This is Daniel, by the way.
He does everything. He's head of everything. I didn't tell the story about the bear. I didn't do it.
What's the story about the bear?
He and I, I'm gonna make this very short. He and I were hiking in Colorado with my dog and all of a sudden I feel like a bee has gone up my leg and is stinging me in a place you don't want to be stung and it's getting worse and worse and worse and I finally realized that my dog bounced up and hit my pocket where I had bear spray and hit the thing and he and I together and I got hit. Nothing in the world compares to that. So the most painful thing ever.
You knew immediately something happened.
It was unbelievable. Then we had about a 20-minute hike to get back.
How long did it take for the burning to stop?
You jump into a shower quickly. Trust me. Trust me. Anyway, he was in charge of getting me to the shower.
So this is my son, Bre.
Oh, hey. How are you? Nice to meet you, Graham.
What's your kind of day-to-day here?
Well, my day-to-day is mostly film and TV directing, which is these posters around. You know, it's nice to be... I've had an office on my own for the majority of my career, and now being able to come here.
He's like, 'I'll give you a free office instead of the office you usually rent.' I'm like, 'Okay.'
So, what was that transition like for you to working in an office so close to your dad?
Yeah, it's a really interesting question. And as he'll tell you, I pushed back against it for a long time. For a long time, it was really, you know, I wanted to do my own thing, which I do. And I went to film school, and my name there was Breck Jones because he was the head of Disney at the time. And so my real name is Michael, but I go by Breck. So I spent my time doing movies and TV and traveling the world and doing commercials for 10 years, which I loved. And now I do that and also work with the family stuff. It's nice to be so close. It's right on this other side of this wall.
