Zach Braff on A Good Person and Why It’s the Best Thing He’s Made

It’s been just under a two decades since since Zach Braff’s directorial debut Garden State, which, Braff tells Collider’s Steve Weintraub, still “comes up every day in [his] life, to this day.” Returning with a style unique to the actor-writer-director, A Good Person stars Florence Pugh, Morgan Freeman, and Molly Shannon in a hopeful film about overcoming guilt and addiction, and learning forgiveness for yourself and others. During their discussion ahead of the movie’s theatrical premiere, Braff opened up about why A Good Person is “the best thing [he’s] made,” and how he took great measures to ensure the film depicted its heavier elements appropriately and accurately. Braff shares how his experience directing television like Ted Lasso and Shrinking have helped hone his filmmaking skills, the difficulties of leaving footage on the cutting room floor, and why Pugh’s choice to cut her own hair for the movie provided a challenge during production. He also discusses his relationship with Oscar-winning