If I'm not directing it, I need to be right in the director's ear so we can be … - Jake M. Johnson

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Jake M. Johnson

If I'm not directing it, I need to be right in the director's ear so we can be talking about this. " You do something like use the wrong music, the tone's off, and everything feels off". And I was like, "I'm not going down with this one. I wrote it, but I don't like that play. " Then I thought, "Well, no one's producing my stuff, letting me star in it, and direct it at these theaters, so I'll just do them in comedy clubs. "

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