Come On, Come On (2021)

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Who talked about it

The Big Picture

Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Ira Glass: 1 line the maker said so ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Ira Glass ⇒ Come On, Come On (the maker said so: Mike Mills interview on the episode). Johnny is a WNYC-style old-school radio journalist; Ira Glass is a big influence on Mills.
    “Ira Glass has been like a big influence, big hero to me.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:14:04 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)

Ira Glass's This American Life: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Ira Glass's This American Life ⇒ Come On, Come On (the host's read). The radio-producer device is in the Ira Glass tradition, not the conspiracy podcaster.
    “I think it's a little bit more in the tradition of Ira Glass than it is necessarily in the tradition of the conspiracy theory podcaster”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:34:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Mike Mills's son: 1 line the maker said so ×1

  1. people (people): Mike Mills's son ⇒ Come On, Come On (the maker said so: Mike Mills interview on the episode). The project began with Mills being his kid's dad; the uncle idea distances it.
    “the whole project is just my kid and me being my kid's dad”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:02:30 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)

Mills's SFMOMA kids-interview video piece: 1 line the maker said so ×1

  1. career (career): Mills's SFMOMA kids-interview video piece ⇒ Come On, Come On (the maker said so: Mike Mills interview on the episode). The film grew from his video piece interviewing Silicon Valley kids about the future, which he did not feel done with.
    “I really didn't feel like I was done with asking kids about the future.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:13:00 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)

Nancy Gale: 1 line the maker said so ×1

  1. people (people): Nancy Gale ⇒ Come On, Come On (the maker said so: Mike Mills interview on the episode). Nancy Gale, who ran his kid's preschool, taught him about children's power and breadth of feeling.
    “Nancy Gale comes in mind who ran my kids, preschool, is a very deep person about children”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:08:52 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

Beginners: 7 lines people ×3 craft ×2 theme ×1 contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Come On, Come On → Beginners. Earlier films were like paintings with a wider palette; this one is a drawing.
    “maybe my other films are more like a painting, you know, or there's a wider palette deployed to tell the story.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:20:14 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)

Ghostbusters: Afterlife: 3 lines theme ×2 contrast ×1

  1. theme (theme): Come On, Come On → Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Come On, Come On depicts a non-traditional family, in contrast with the Reitman point.
    “In a family that, to the Reitman point, is not a traditional family”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:33:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Joaquin Phoenix: 2 lines contrast ×1 craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Joaquin Phoenix → Come On, Come On. Phoenix surprised Mills with how good he was at doing the interviews.
    “I was surprised at how deeply Joaquin got into it and how good he was at it.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:17:03 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)

Buster Keaton: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Come On, Come On → Buster Keaton. An uncle who does not know how to parent makes every scene like a Keaton movie.
    “it's like a Buster Keaton movie all of a sudden, you know?”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:04:45 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)

Buster Keaton's films: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Come On, Come On → Buster Keaton's films. Mills made Johnny an uncle so every scene plays like a Buster Keaton movie of not knowing what to do.
    “So it's like a it's like a Buster Keaton movie all of a sudden, you know?”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:04:45 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)

Casablanca: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Come On, Come On → Casablanca. The framing in clean single shots is like Casablanca.
    “It's like, it's like out of Casablanca or something.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:21:59 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)

Hero: 1 line verdict ×1

  1. verdict (verdict): Hero → Come On, Come On. Mills's last great thing he saw: A Hero, praised for patient layering and ambiguity.
    “I thought that was so masterfully built up, like such a micro layering of a story”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:30:43 · Mike Mills (0.80 sure it was them)

Ira Glass: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Come On, Come On → Ira Glass. Johnny is a WNYC-style old-school radio journalist; Ira Glass is a big influence on Mills.
    “Ira Glass has been like a big influence, big hero to me.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:14:04 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)

Ira Glass's This American Life: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Come On, Come On → Ira Glass's This American Life. The radio-producer device is in the Ira Glass tradition, not the conspiracy podcaster.
    “I think it's a little bit more in the tradition of Ira Glass than it is necessarily in the tradition of the conspiracy theory podcaster”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:34:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Jaboukie Young-White: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (people): Jaboukie Young-White → Come On, Come On. Comedian Young-White is in the film as an actor, mixing smart minds.
    “Jabuki Young White is, yeah, a comedian and I think he's really an actor”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:17:18 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)

Jacqueline Rose: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Come On, Come On → Jacqueline Rose. The film includes texts by authors like Jacqueline Rose.
    “different texts by like Jacqueline Rose or Kristen Johnson”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:19:56 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)

Mike Mills: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Mike Mills → Come On, Come On. Mills compares the black-and-white look to a Hockney portrait and a drawing versus a painting.
    “I want to be like a David Hockney portrait of a friend”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:20:23 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)

Mike Mills's son: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (people): Come On, Come On → Mike Mills's son. The project began with Mills being his kid's dad; the uncle idea distances it.
    “the whole project is just my kid and me being my kid's dad”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:02:30 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)

Mills's SFMOMA kids-interview video piece: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Come On, Come On → Mills's SFMOMA kids-interview video piece. The film grew from his video piece interviewing Silicon Valley kids about the future, which he did not feel done with.
    “I really didn't feel like I was done with asking kids about the future.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:13:00 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)

Molly Webster: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (people): Molly Webster → Come On, Come On. Webster, a real radio journalist, is cast as an actor, blurring documentary and fiction.
    “Molly Webster is from Radar Lab and his radio journalist is not an actor and she's an actor in my movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:17:13 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)

Nancy Gale: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (people): Nancy Gale → Come On, Come On. Nancy Gale, who ran his kid's preschool, taught him about children's power and breadth of feeling.
    “Nancy Gale comes in mind who ran my kids, preschool, is a very deep person about children”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:08:52 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)

Pee-wee's Big Adventure: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Pee-wee's Big Adventure → Come On, Come On. All the feel-good picks are about when you see them, like Come On, Come On and Afterlife.
    “all of these movies for me are about when you see them, just like, come on, come on, is about when you see them.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:56:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Satie: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Come On, Come On → Satie. He thinks of the simple look as Satie music or a drawing, not a painting.
    “I did sort of see this as simpler or like satee music, you know, or like a drawing.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:20:05 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)

Sunni Patterson: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (people): Sunni Patterson → Come On, Come On. The New Orleans woman is played by a non-actress.
    “The Sonny Patterson who plays the woman whose house they go to in New Orleans, she's not an actress either.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:17:36 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)

Woody Norman: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (people): Woody Norman → Come On, Come On. Woody Norman is an incredible child-actor find.
    “Woody Norman, incredible find.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:33:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career): Come On, Come On → Mills's SFMOMA kids-interview video piece. The film grew from his video piece interviewing Silicon Valley kids about the future, which he did not feel done with.
    “I really didn't feel like I was done with asking kids about the future.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:13:00 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)

contrast (3)

  1. contrast (contrast): Come On, Come On → Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Both are about families; Come On, Come On is self-aware where Afterlife is not.
    “This is self-aware, even if Ghostbusters Afterlife is not.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:32:05 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): Joaquin Phoenix → Come On, Come On. Phoenix plays a nice, imperfect guy, the inverse of his damaged-masculinity roles in Joker and The Master.
    “what Phoenix brings to it is almost the exact inverse of what we know him for, from the Joker and from the master”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:33:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. contrast (contrast): Come On, Come On → Beginners. Earlier films were like paintings with a wider palette; this one is a drawing.
    “maybe my other films are more like a painting, you know, or there's a wider palette deployed to tell the story.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:20:14 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)

craft (9)

  1. craft (craft): Come On, Come On → Beginners. Come On, Come On is the most stripped down of Mills's movies versus the busyness of Beginners and 20th Century Women.
    “this was the most stripped down of his movies relative to kind of some of the like busyness, the kind of intentional busyness of beginners and 20th century women”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:34:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Come On, Come On → Buster Keaton's films. Mills made Johnny an uncle so every scene plays like a Buster Keaton movie of not knowing what to do.
    “So it's like a it's like a Buster Keaton movie all of a sudden, you know?”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:04:45 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)
  3. craft (craft): Come On, Come On → Buster Keaton. An uncle who does not know how to parent makes every scene like a Keaton movie.
    “it's like a Buster Keaton movie all of a sudden, you know?”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:04:45 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)
  4. craft (craft): Joaquin Phoenix → Come On, Come On. Phoenix surprised Mills with how good he was at doing the interviews.
    “I was surprised at how deeply Joaquin got into it and how good he was at it.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:17:03 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)
  5. craft (craft): Come On, Come On → Jacqueline Rose. The film includes texts by authors like Jacqueline Rose.
    “different texts by like Jacqueline Rose or Kristen Johnson”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:19:56 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)
  6. craft (craft): Come On, Come On → Satie. He thinks of the simple look as Satie music or a drawing, not a painting.
    “I did sort of see this as simpler or like satee music, you know, or like a drawing.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:20:05 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)
  7. craft (craft): Mike Mills → Come On, Come On. Mills compares the black-and-white look to a Hockney portrait and a drawing versus a painting.
    “I want to be like a David Hockney portrait of a friend”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:20:23 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)
  8. craft (craft): Come On, Come On → Casablanca. The framing in clean single shots is like Casablanca.
    “It's like, it's like out of Casablanca or something.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:21:59 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)
  9. craft (craft): Come On, Come On → Beginners. Mills says he used text and archival-like material in earlier films and found a different way here, via included texts.
    “I love archival stuff and real, but I feel like I just did that with the text.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:22:28 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)

lineage (2)

  1. lineage (lineage): Come On, Come On → Ira Glass's This American Life. The radio-producer device is in the Ira Glass tradition, not the conspiracy podcaster.
    “I think it's a little bit more in the tradition of Ira Glass than it is necessarily in the tradition of the conspiracy theory podcaster”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:34:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): Come On, Come On → Ira Glass. Johnny is a WNYC-style old-school radio journalist; Ira Glass is a big influence on Mills.
    “Ira Glass has been like a big influence, big hero to me.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:14:04 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)

people (9)

  1. people (people): Woody Norman → Come On, Come On. Woody Norman is an incredible child-actor find.
    “Woody Norman, incredible find.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:33:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Come On, Come On → Mike Mills's son. The project began with Mills being his kid's dad; the uncle idea distances it.
    “the whole project is just my kid and me being my kid's dad”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:02:30 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)
  3. people (people): Nancy Gale → Come On, Come On. Nancy Gale, who ran his kid's preschool, taught him about children's power and breadth of feeling.
    “Nancy Gale comes in mind who ran my kids, preschool, is a very deep person about children”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:08:52 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)
  4. people (people): Molly Webster → Come On, Come On. Webster, a real radio journalist, is cast as an actor, blurring documentary and fiction.
    “Molly Webster is from Radar Lab and his radio journalist is not an actor and she's an actor in my movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:17:13 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)
  5. people (people): Jaboukie Young-White → Come On, Come On. Comedian Young-White is in the film as an actor, mixing smart minds.
    “Jabuki Young White is, yeah, a comedian and I think he's really an actor”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:17:18 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)
  6. people (people): Sunni Patterson → Come On, Come On. The New Orleans woman is played by a non-actress.
    “The Sonny Patterson who plays the woman whose house they go to in New Orleans, she's not an actress either.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:17:36 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)
  7. people (people): Come On, Come On → Beginners. Mills says he kept his sisters largely out of his films besides 20th Century Women.
    “I've kept my sisters largely out of my films, except for 20th”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:25:36 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)
  8. people (people): Come On, Come On → Beginners. Mills says Beginners resonates with people coping with a parent's death.
    “you should see this movie called Beginners with Christopher Plummer.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:25:54 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)
  9. people (people): Come On, Come On → Beginners. Beginners was about Mills and his dad.
    “That's sort of me and my dad.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:26:08 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)

theme (4)

  1. theme (theme): Come On, Come On → Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Come On, Come On depicts a non-traditional family, in contrast with the Reitman point.
    “In a family that, to the Reitman point, is not a traditional family”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:33:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. theme (theme): Come On, Come On → Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Both put a podcast/radio figure on screen.
    “which is, um, a podcast character of its own”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:34:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. theme (theme): Pee-wee's Big Adventure → Come On, Come On. All the feel-good picks are about when you see them, like Come On, Come On and Afterlife.
    “all of these movies for me are about when you see them, just like, come on, come on, is about when you see them.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:56:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. theme (theme): Come On, Come On → Beginners. Mills says Come On, Come On, 20th Century Women and Beginners are about primary family relationships (dad, mom, child).
    “you have a dad film and a mom film and now in come on, come on.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:02:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

verdict (1)

  1. verdict (verdict): Hero → Come On, Come On. Mills's last great thing he saw: A Hero, praised for patient layering and ambiguity.
    “I thought that was so masterfully built up, like such a micro layering of a story”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:30:43 · Mike Mills (0.80 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Come On, Come On: SFMOMA kids-interview piece: children of Apple employees often could not take part because of NDAs, after earlier trouble over a kid's social media post.
    “some people have run into trouble where their children said something on social media”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:12:15 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Come On, Come On: Johnny is modeled as a WNYC old-school radio journalist who loves Studs Terkel.
    “he's like a very WNYC, slightly old school Scott Currier radio journalist”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:13:50 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Come On, Come On: Mills introduced Joaquin Phoenix to Studs Terkel for the role.
    “introducing Joaquin to Studs Triple.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:13:58 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Come On, Come On: Mills admits "grass is always greener" about wanting Ira Glass's job.
    “So I guess I want that job a little bit or I like that.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:14:10 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Come On, Come On: Mills's interviews of real kids: kid interviews in the film are with non-actors, with Joaquin and Molly Webster following the flow.
    “They're non-actor kids have never been in the film ministry or anything”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:16:42 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Come On, Come On: Mills says the film is "like filled with really smart people", with a mix of actors and non-actors.
    “This movie, I feel like, is, like filled with like really smart people.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:17:32 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Come On, Come On: He told himself a mantra: a drawing, not a painting.
    “I kept referring to a drawing, not a painting.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:20:11 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Come On, Come On: Mills wants the film to be like a David Hockney portrait of a friend.
    “I want to be like a David Hockney portrait of a friend”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:20:23 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about Come On, Come On: Mills calls the child-adult fable image deliciously illegal for his usual space.
    “I was like, ooh, that's sort of like deliciously illegal.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:21:15 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

As said on the shows, not checked against the real credits.