Nick Paley is a writer, editor and director for film and TV, and a co-writer on the recent film, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, which stars an adorable one-inch tall shell who wears shoes and is looking for his long lost shell family. Nick is from Vermont, and he’s working on a new TV series set here, so when he was in town I dragged him to a matinee of Marcel the Shell…the same movie theater where he used to clean the bathrooms. And then afterwards he let me ask him ten million questions about what it’s like to work in the film industry. This show is a bit of both.
More:
- Nick’s website
- News on Nick’s upcoming TV series, Phony, and a picture of him in a cardigan
- Link to Marcel the Shell trailer
- Interview about the making of Marcel, with Nick Paley and Dean Fleischer-Camp
- Broad City Episode Nick directed
Thanks for this episode! I’m putting Marcel the Shell on my list now. We had one of those colored ball wire track things at my dentist too, what is it with dentists and that toy? Was it a method of showing kids that their dentist appointment was inevitable?
oh my god YES. THAT is why those things are always in dentist offices! This is a brilliant theory and it will stay with me every time I go to the dentist. Forever.
Thanks for this! I love Marcel and now I love Nick. What a great conversation. I’m listening to it again!