The Orthodox Jew at Disney, Dreamworks & Netflix - Saul Blinkoff | Inspiration for the Nation ep 3

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

tears were streaming down my face because i was thinking if a short kid like that could get into notre dame with an insane amount of hard work then what i thought was an untalented artist could get into disney with an insane amount of hard work and i vowed to never give up again wow i got my best drawings together sent them into the disney studios and boom when you wish honest i got in welcome back to another episode of inspiration for the nation and this week we got a doozy for you i don't think i've ever interviewed someone who has their own imdb page yes that's right i got the one the only saul blink off who was one of the best voices ever i that's my bad imitation of him but aside for having an amazing voice and being such a motivational person and speaker he is an animator he's worked for disney and dreamworks and worked on films like pocahontas and hunchback of notre dame and also he's a religious jew yeah uh he has quite a journey um him and his wife and their family and it's it's he's someone that i listen to his podcast uh life of awesome and if you haven't heard it after this go check it out but i have a strong feeling after you finish this episode you'll be happy to listen uh he has a journey and he has a lot to say and we did this rather quickly um you know i've been talking to him for a while now i was actually fanboying him um but uh we were

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1. 0:00tears were streaming down my face because i was thinking if a short kid like that…
2. 4:15spielberg i thought oh if he could do it i could do it too and i…
3. 8:26up and down i'm like that's not really what i want she goes well hold on…
4. 12:40got an envelope on disney stationery i still remember it had my name printed on an…
5. 16:48but fourth time if you look at the movie poster for the movie rudy it says…
6. 22:08what do you mean fit in and this is what he said i was raised a…
7. 26:20side directing a show at mtv i did a show there i started becoming shomer shabbas…
8. 30:40not be what's good for other people instead of going for a life of happiness shoot…
9. 34:56word torah as i'm sure you know is a hebrew word it means instructions it means…
10. 39:10your struggle with the drawing and that was your like mission to like get used to…

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