Brian Grazer is a very successful film and television producer, including A Beautiful Mind, the Oscar-winning movie.
Did this film have a lot of personal resonance for you since you struggled with dyslexia when you were younger? Yes. And I also have a son who has a very serious learning disability. So, it's a world that I have tremendous interest in and a lot of compassion for. I literally got straight F's in school. In my generation, there was no help. Now there are names and labels that can help you understand things. But in my generation it was just, "Hey, you're stupid." How did you personally overcome the negative labels that were thrown at you? The only thing that helped was success really. It was a fluke that I became a swimming champion in high school. Literally a fluke. All my friends went out for swimming and so I went out for swimming. The coach said take lane 8, which was the worst lane, and I broke the city record in 100m Butterfly.
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