0:00 [Music] everybody welcome back to careful boys we are returning off the record we got a hot seat episode hot seat somebody brand new that we are lucky to have with us cinematographer director and smash brothers enthusiast and champion and undefeatable opponent wow colleen lionheart hey hey you're an eye okay and in hot seat fashion where we like to turn up the heat let's start it off cold and because bart's not here in place of bert swan we're going to have bert's lawn if i'm sitting in this chair we're not going to do a cold question thank god i'm not going to do no ████ it has to start cold this is why it's called hot seat how many super smash brothers championships do you have under your belt zero
0:51 well that's pretty cold that's pretty cool of course it depends though we've had we've had sometimes we've made our uh we've made tournaments up amongst ourselves sure like are we talking like all right i'll do it for borah all right hold question my introduction what is your most favorite office supply office supply um that's a that's a cool question that's cool my bad i i gotta learn from that pen a pen okay like you know yeah but you know like that really really good pen there's always that one specific pen that writes better than the others yeah and then when you say give me a pen and someone gives you one that's not that you're like not this right it's like the plastic like blue one that you're like you never want no not now i like the clicky ones i love the clicker oh the clicky ones multiple clicks yeah i like the one with three colors do you like those pens where there's
1:41 like different colors and you if you click down a different i'm not a child ryan yeah well you just said we like that oh i just i just oh man she just spit in our face i'm a woman ryan i'm a woman women like gelatins too oh yeah gel pens my wife says love gel pens actually she likes my wife does too she wants them for her birthday and for christmas yeah they always dry out you know that you've used it to exhaustion wow you caught me there interesting the sparkly kind does everybody ever use the curl quill pens where the ink has the ████ that's the pen i'm talking about i pluck it from a bird yeah and then can we just talk about pens instead of doing stupid hot seats i just talk about kind of writing utensils that's supposed to be a cold question guys they're supposed to end there okay let's turn up the heat a little bit your last name is lionheart is this correct yeah okay where's the origin of your
2:32 last name where does it come from the heart of a lion so africa the savannah you guessed it you're lineage did you ever do a 23andme um no i did ancestry.com i think and what were your results um mostly european get out me too and then like banana 30 chinese whoa really where did that come from you got us excited you're like you are part of this channel like 30 is kind of high 50 mostly european you would be like yeah i'll be 70 30. you know 30's pretty high for chinese i was going to tell you i did mine too and it said i was 99 chinese so that was really cool what a surprise dude one percent european wow
3:22 i wish i got one percent of anything else but it just says unknown did you grow up in la i did born and raised local wow i rarely meet people in entertainment that are actually local nobody says that except for the locals right because we also know locals i got to meet i got to meet uh captain kirks one time and he was a local william shatner no no the new one oh wait no the other oh captain kirk chris pine huh i was outside i was outside of an improv club and he was like there and uh he knew my friend and then i met him that way and he was about to he was about to be kirk for the first time but but i knew that he was cast as him i was like oh ████ you're going to be captain kirk he's like yeah man i was like oh that's kind of sick and then yeah he was so is he from glendale or what i don't know he's from l.a and i thought that was crazy because i met so many people in the industry
4:12 same ████ and you can't believe when they're actually from here i mean which is strange because ellie's so vast true because when you're actually from la you never say you're from l.a you say you're like right you're like redondo beach or whatever right but when you leave la you go i'm from l.a you don't say you're from west covina so what part of la are you from west hills you're like where's that i totally know where west hills is the word interesting i barely know where we are bro oh that place is not what i expected wait where is west hills it's next to woodland hills oh and then the other hills okay i know that i know that area i know that area that's the other valley yeah this is the san gabriel valley yes sgv baby
5:02 does anyone ever travel and go i'm from sgb oh like travel to another country yeah and then they ask you where you're from you're like i should start they're like where are you from sgv and they're like cool where's that where's that that's the problem with that that's why people just say you're from l.a but like that's exactly why because if i mean even in la they'll be like where's west hills really it's like dude how far do you want to have that conversation with you exactly there's like 30 cities here i just want to keep it moving is it true i mean dude the la people who talk about freeways too much is that accurate or what i mean i i don't know like to be honest i don't have a lot of la friends so i personally don't talk about it because it's it's a given it's a given like oh really how'd you get here yeah it was your route teleport before
6:00 you want to know what the most uh you know i like when you know someone's not a local and they go oh interesting you're from west halls you know what the most uh if someone is a local local what they would respond with is they always tell you that's not l.a right no matter what you ████ say unless you live in downtown it's just not their part yeah no matter what you're standing on the ████ home plate in dodger stadium [Laughter] that's not l.a if you're in the if you're in the bleachers like you're not in ████ l.a real locals will always respond ████ l.a it doesn't matter what city you say that's not a that's so true you from ████ honey to partly that ain't l.a so what is the heart then is it the financial district on ████ you know like perching square yeah
6:52 like what makes it the the main part you know like the ████ jewelry district there's no consensus there's no like consensus like oh that's like i'm in skid row that's probably the heart of it there you go that's the beating heart of la and it spreads out so you're in the industry and all that right is there something like an overarching goal that you have not reached yet but you're looking you're trying to accomplish yeah warmer um yes and no like i have my like overall achievements that i'd like to hit mostly with my company um it being a more creative agency that has its tiers of directors and producers and editors and and everybody within that and that way i could just run the company and then do the projects i'm actually passionate about that would be the success um is it like a specific person or movie i
7:42 think that will all be well and great but it's it's not too specific enough um i think it's more personal based with with the company have you written anything like you you've like uh well i'm not a writer well oh what a coincidence because he is uh-huh he pulls out like 10 scripts pick one please scripts and head shots just dump them all over your phone i brought my head shots too so uh no but are you do you have something like like any particular project where you're like i one day i'm gonna make that um i think being kind of like the female michael bay would be great sick nice just because so babe with an e yeah bae [Laughter]
8:33 the way that he shoots ████ where he does that camera going in and out of environments is so ████ cool yeah i just i have a love for movement i mean it's hard you really like that if you're being successful i think it's gay dude i'm just joking i was like do you really like it i wanted her to like it then i crushed it why she touched the completely totally dodged it i was like like you know like that crane movement and then it just i actually really do love that i think it's ████ tight because he really brought that to a lot of i mean everyone's ripping them off now but but that was really cool okay yeah there's so many filmmakers that do talk ████ about michael bay but i'm like you ain't even doing movies so what are you saying yeah it's like you're calling yourself a ████ filmmaker i would kind of like combine them though like i'd have more of a like christopher nolan quinn tarantino with the action of michael bay
9:25 so like you have like a death reaction yeah you don't want like stunt fighters who are just falling and tripping on banana peels and ████ well that's actually the project i'm working on right now yeah yeah banana field too directed by michael bay yeah so action movies is your ████ huh action movies is your ████ that's what i'm transitioning to because dance was a thing that i was very niche interesting so you're going from dance to action like fight choreo all that stuff oh wow lisa you said you used to be an editor yeah i've never seen that dream you're just so polite you're raised right today's video is brought to you by audible dude i just recently realized that um i am a audio learner than a reader
10:16 because i have severe adhd and when i'm reading um somehow i have to go back and read the same damn page like 10 times because after the second paragraph my mind drifts off into another wonderland and books take forever for me to read and also i feel like you know sometimes you want someone to speak to you with a soothing voice because you just feel like someone's telling you like a teacher or something yeah and then also they fill up my mind with the words so i can't talk in my own head and that really helps me out a lot um and another way that i've been using audible is at the gym so before i would always use music and all this stuff but now i've been using podcasts or different kind of educational books or whatever right because in the morning i think i'm the most alert
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12:47 this ████ just takes it off they're the ones eating it taste it they gotta taste it make sure it's good quality i feel like we should be doing something like the natural progression of you know i started off editing and then that kind of got lackluster and picked up a camera and they wanted to shoot and be part of the action and then then you edit the call sheet yeah i've i've kind of done every job up to the poi and i i'm still learning as i go so i want to be a director that actually has the tools to direct not just somebody who is upheld by their team would you say that being a director it's like you have to know like a little bit of what everyone does yeah absolutely i think that's why it's taken me much longer i want to be the director that doesn't know but he has a big vision and he's just like you
13:37 come over here do the flip there and then instead of three times i want you to flip 10 times now that's cool but i don't work here i'm walking my dog no negativity no negative no no i don't care and then wardrobe come over here make a coat right now in 30 seconds yeah we're not i'm not doing wardrobe this is my garage sale that's like the misconception of a director you have to be aggressive or loud or like you just have to be this egotistical entitled oh no you get the ad to do that yeah absolutely oh there's some directors too you don't like directors that don't know the terms and go like hey do the thingy with the lens thing make it make it look like that i like it when the director's like um oh so he's looking at there how should we set this up or i like the directors who don't say anything and they're just kind of standing around like it's it's their project and then everybody else is working around that oh
14:28 dude yeah love that and then they just have their name as a credit i just want that chair and then i want the i want the beret with the horn and then be like yeah yeah action you want to be a star don't you you'll never work in a city again we've never reached the 12 minute and 47 second mark this is the part where we like to really trim the heat let's get real hot um would you would you say what would you say is the most difficult thing the obstacle that you have ever had and how did you overcome it um i think just the stereotype i'm in a typically more male driven field i thought it was good because you're 30 asian that too yeah i don't see the chinese if yeah you want it because you're japanese you wouldn't see it joe yeah or else my hate for you
15:19 would be strong but maybe it's only 30 hateful it's a male driven feel yeah i mean because like there are times where like i walked onto my own set and they'd be like talent's this way i don't know i'm like hi i hired you oh yeah they didn't know and now i fired like somebody who is like a grip or a gaffer who is like part of the team that was required on that production and you know they're not doing it yeah and that intent um but obviously you know the stereotype does play a role it's kind of like that that riddle where they go like the the guy got in the car accident and the doctor saved and then what happened oh and it's like oh well he the doctor he was this and that's like well the doctor was a she remember you know that riddle yeah yeah yeah yeah like why could the doctor operate yeah it's like oh well my brain just automatically thought doctor was a huge i think we're getting out of that
16:10 though so i thought the driver was a woman for sure i was like on the money i thought well angelina jolie is like directing ████ or she was right for a minute yeah i'll just yeah in the land of blood and honey she did she did uh i think that's it i mean there's a lot of female dps out there that are killing it too like they just you know what do you think uh the director role has not had many females in the role like do you like do you think girls just don't gravitate to her or like what is what is it about it could be like a natural like psychology of just what women are typically interested in what attracted you to it what attracted me to it um i just like storytelling i enjoy being able to have a different perspective um and i also just enjoy being able to um
17:03 tell people what to do absolutely absolutely absolutely what's your favorite movie see i hate the word favorite top five top five i love favorite it sounded like a really tough one oh i can't do it i can't do top five i can't do top ten i can't top three top one couple favorites just couple favorites couple couples uh yeah first things i mean ████ but they're not even gonna be my favorites i'm gonna look back on this and be like greece too why did i say i'll tell you like my few favorite directors currently and i'll tell you why instead of a favorite movie um i like quentin tarantino just because when you watch his movies you know it's his movies he has he's like a director that has a style a stamp to it um it helps
17:55 that he writes the majority of them so top two quentin tarantino movies top one quincy kill bill and um and gloria's fastest ah good one okay top three one more once upon a time you know there are things that i liked about things that i didn't i hated it it was a little did you as as being 30 chinese did you not like the bruce lee part um being 70 european i loved it she played ratios yeah that's a good answer that's a good ████ it overpowered
18:51 what did you think of tennant you know what i tried watching that movie on a plane ten minutes until i turned it off what do you think it was turbulence yeah my fear for my life [Laughter] this might be the end and i don't want it to be watching this movie dude i watched ████ flight on an airplane you try that ████ out oh hell yeah i just couldn't get into it i don't know what it was do you have any major like regrets about just any of uh these life choices that you've made no rag runs no rag that's good very tight very well handled very well handled on a very difficult question is that so like aside from like kind of like dudes judging you or not judging but just like like misjudging
19:42 or like right or like or like or like people like maybe like not expecting you to be a director they just like get surprised right has anyone like outwardly disrespected you in the face where like you just need to kick their nuts or something yeah because they would be a guy kick him in the ████ face you know or something not like a situation that i can think of oh you've been around pleasant people yeah i typically have more control over the situations i'm in especially nowadays so you're choosing the caster crew or whatever too yeah with the i also choose my team michael so you never had to fire anybody on set before no i'm tough on fire i think i'm a pretty good judge of character like the people that i work with they love what they do and they just want to be there to add value they're actual team players nobody has an ego um so yeah i don't think i'm a good example
20:33 of somebody who's dealt with a lot of situation like hollywood have you ever been not paid um no wow because i'm i'm super diligent on my contracts i write my own contracts so you just like preemptively doing everything to protect so then you don't run into situations well it's like s█████ luck like i don't like don't believe in luck because luck is just preparation so if you prepare enough to to make the situation what you want it to be then you're gonna be okay for the most part i mean you're always gonna run into situations on productions where things are gonna go wrong but i think that only happened once where nothing went wrong on set like we weren't going over time like there were any electrical issues like the location manager wasn't being a dick like and i was like what is happening right now something has to go wrong
21:24 um but with my interaction with people no they've been decently pleasant um on the crew and talent side i would say it's more so with clients i got i got a i got a more hot question has it affected your love life being in such a powerful position hmm that's good um i don't know can't we yeah go ahead so they're all ex-boyfriends meaning like meaning i'm not currently with somebody did that ever what does that mean it intimidates them get in the like the no because i think the people that i've always been associated with in that way were always also in the entertainment world so they understood it i think that's a key component to having even a chance at a successful relationship
22:15 yeah because they understand the field that you're in um so you're against nine to five guys not against it i just haven't found somebody interesting enough wow just think those regular joes are kind of schmoes a little bit yeah yeah a bunch of ████ losers be more interesting that's gonna be more interesting stuff don't work at nine to five try ten to six yeah eight to three like more never let them know your next move get a better job just get a better job yeah just don't work just don't work so most of the past relationships you've had were like in entertainment so they already had that understanding of your career and then so schedules and things like that never became an issue like for most people that they kind of like outside the industry so then like would it just be like normal couple fights and stuff just like or would it be like like i wanna ████ do this film no i wanna do this film you compete because
23:06 you're like with another director or something no you never i'm just trying to find drama god damn it you know there's got to be like something spicy your life is like ████ so good like damn you're just not asking the right questions what's the dramatic question yeah can you just give it to us then can you talk ████ about catherine bigelow or something like that yeah yeah ████ on catherine bigelow you take a ████ on a big show on kathleen bigelow oh yeah who's your competition yeah who do you hate in the industry exactly yeah who you're who's your competition you want to switch female directors like that ████ to ████ do it i will say this so um my website it used to be lionheart creative.net ████ my life it was that because um out of just bad intentions this person knew that i was naming my company lionheart creative and bought the domain
23:56 names and it's selling lionheart creative.com for like almost three thousand dollars so now it's now it's lionheart creative.com but um yeah i've had.net for quite a while because of that bam so this was the person you used to work with yeah let's ████ punch him in the face let's jump this ████ dude at least you know the identity i mean it could only be one person it could only be one [Laughter] last question what do you think about the highlander series oh my god your favorite one and why is it number two [Music] [Applause] [Music]
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