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your Apple stock was worth 441 million dollars and your daughter and her mother are on welfare she's not my daughter we must be able to see that she looks like you we will know soon enough if you were Leonardo da Vinci or just think you are you're the only one who sees the world same way I do no one sees the world the same way to do all right so can thank you for speaking to us today yet what well first you eat the story of Steve Jobs and what was come the biggest challenge that you face and telling that story Oh what drew me to it was a blind date I had just had a great time making two movies in a row the social network in Moneyball with the same studio the same producer and they had just bought Walter Isaacson's authorized biography of Steve Jobs and they said I'd like you to do this and I said sure and it was a blind date but then I fell in love and before I knew what I wanted to do I knew what I didn't want to do and that was right a biopic I didn't want to write a cradle-to-grave story where we land on the greatest hits of the protagonist along the way I wanted to do something else and after spending a lot of time with the real people who are represented by characters in the movie and then several dozen others who aren't I started to recognize points of friction between Steve and a number of these people particular his eldest daughter Lisa and I came up with a whole different structure which is that the movie would just be three scenes each of them in real time and each of these scenes would take place backstage and the moments leading up to a product launch how did you choose those three moments in Steve's life they had nothing to do with the products themselves people have said well you know how could you not do the iphone it's just uh you know was seminal it's because the the those choices didn't have anything to do with the products and the movie doesn't have much to do with with the products i chose the launch the mac because steve was still denying paternity of lisa in 1984 and because the Macintosh was the first product that Steve really felt complete ownership of the others he'd either made compromises on or he had been kicked off of her like that this was his baby and it failed and then the second act next that's the king in exile the third act is the King returns uh you know if a third act had been the iphone it would have been well the King returned several years ago there's nothing much dramatic about that show those first two acts that they're both film makes very clear that they're both times when he didn't really have the things that he said he had what you think that sort of says about him as a person well I think um it says a number of things its first of all he dreams big he swings for the fences and of course the reality distortion field you know he would have a dream that was here the technology would be here he always knew the technology would catch up to where his dream was it was a matter of how fast could it do it and the boro phrase one more thing was Steve Jobs genius first of all let me tell you for a while I thought but that would be the title of the movie and one more thing um but I couldn't work and one more thing in a screenplay was Steve Jobs a genius I don't the results speak for themselves that he marshaled the forces that created not just the most successful company in the history of the world but these products and devices that so many people feel emotional about I yes it's my verdict is yes that he stood at the intersection of art technology and and and that was something duh sure I what I like to have his brain has man donation you back