:51:02
A grandfather worked construction
on a dozen skyscrapers...
:51:05
including
the Empire State Building.
:51:07
Then he falls to his death
when I'm a kid.
:51:09
My dad was a cop,
got shot twice while on the job.
:51:12
My mom is a nurse
up at Harlem Hospital...
:51:14
still saving lives every day.
:51:16
So we really gave
something to the city.
:51:19
Our blood, our guts, our lives.
We're the ones that made it great.
:51:22
That's a great story...
:51:24
but I can trace my ancestors back
to the original Dutch settlers...
:51:27
in the 1 7th century.
:51:28
In my book, that's as real
a New Yorker as you can get.
:51:30
If you grew up
in the outer boroughs...
:51:32
you have a greater appreciation
of New York...
:51:34
than if you grew up in Manhattan.
:51:36
We grew up sort of seeing
the city from a distance...
:51:39
and feeling the pull of it,
longing for it.
:51:42
So maybe if you grew up here,
you kind of take it for granted.
:51:46
Jesus, you weren't kidding.
This is a great space.
:51:49
I thought you'd like it.
Obviously, it's a raw space.
:51:51
You'd have to build it out.
It'd cost money.
:51:53
I don't mean to be rude,
but what do you do for a living?
:51:56
I produce a television show,
Entertainment This Week.
:52:00
What do you do there?
:52:02
We go around to movie premieres
and television shows...
:52:05
then we interview all these
asshole celebrities...
:52:07
about who they're fucking and
how much they're getting overpaid...
:52:10
then try and help them sell
their latest piece-of-crap product.
:52:14
- So you really like this job.
- You know what it is?
:52:17
When I got out of college,
I wanted to be a writer...
:52:19
maybe go into journalism
or maybe even be a novelist.
:52:22
But the only job I could get
was answering phones at the show.
:52:26
So here it is, ten years later,
I'm making a pile of dough...
:52:30
and it's hard to imagine
walking away...
:52:32
even though I know
it'd be the best thing for me.
:52:36
Sounds like my marriage.
:52:39
So are you writing anything now?
:52:44
Every time I try and get started,
something comes up from work...
:52:46
and I just get distracted.
:52:48
Maybe one day I'll be in Barnes
& Noble and see one of your books.
:52:52
And I'll pick it up.
:52:56
That'd be nice.