00:00 I had been searching for an answer and there it was.
00:10 They had been there the entire time.
00:14 As I was writing for this movie, you know, I thought about all the people that have,
00:18 you know, told me I couldn't do something or be a songwriter or this song wouldn't work.
00:21 Every possible thing is against you.
00:23 It's a spicy chip.
00:24 It's going to change everything.
00:25 It will save our factory.
00:26 And you're a janitor.
00:27 Okay, no, no, no, don't hang up.
00:28 Action!
00:29 So I met Daney Arden.
00:30 I met her because I was lucky enough.
00:33 This was luck.
00:34 My production offices were in her building.
00:36 It was like, "Hey, I want to write a song for your movie."
00:39 And I was like, "Dane, I don't have a movie."
00:43 You know, a year passed, she's like, "Hey, have you made that movie yet?
00:45 I want to do the song."
00:46 I said, "Dane, I haven't made a movie.
00:47 I don't have an idea for a movie."
00:48 Like, this went on for a couple years.
00:49 And then it was announced in the trades, Eva Longoria to direct Flaming Hot Movie.
00:54 And she calls and she goes, "I want to do the song for the movie."
00:57 I was like, "Dane, I don't even know.
00:58 We don't even have a script."
00:59 It was COVID.
01:00 I mean, we were so far away from when music even comes in.
01:04 She was like, "All right, let me know.
01:05 Let me know.
01:06 Let me know when you're done."
01:07 And so the first assembly of a movie, Diane Warren was one of the first people to watch
01:12 it.
01:13 Guys like you and me, we don't get shots like this.
01:14 You see that guy right there?
01:15 I see a chingon.
01:16 A montañez.
01:17 Yo soy montañez.
01:18 De montañez.
01:19 Get out there and be great.
01:20 Nothing can hold you back.
01:21 And in the lobby goes, "All right, I got the song."
01:22 It's called Fire Inside.
01:23 And it goes, "Nothing is no longer."
01:24 And in the lobby goes, "All right, I got the song."
01:26 It's called Fire Inside.
01:27 And it goes, "Nothing is no longer."
01:28 I didn't have it in the lobby.
01:29 "Nothing can hold you."
01:30 It's about not being held back and nobody's going to put out your flame.
01:33 It was the next day.
01:35 You are a genius.
01:36 That is your genius.
01:37 No, I'm not.
01:38 Because she took the essence of what we were trying to do in the movie and to put it in
01:42 a song.
01:43 And I've always been such a fan of soundtracks and the interpretation musically.
01:47 How it can take you back.
01:48 Yeah, and how it can take you further.
01:50 Fire, oh, oh, oh, oh.
01:56 You got the fire inside.
01:58 You got the fire inside.
02:00 It's a hero story, except our hero doesn't wear a cape.
02:03 You're either too much of this, too much of that.
02:05 That is what makes us unique.
02:06 That is who we are.
02:07 Yeah, it's a crazy dream.
02:09 All our dreams are crazy dreams.
02:10 The fact that you're sitting here, I'm sitting here, you're sitting here.
02:13 Hey, that's right.
02:14 We're like one in a billion.
02:16 The fact that we get to do what we love for a living.
02:19 Absolutely.
02:20 And you know why?
02:21 It's because we got the fire inside.
02:22 That's right.
02:23 The fire inside of us is greater than the fire outside of us.
02:26 Was your fire inside that created the song and then my fire inside to make the movie?
02:34 Because it's more than a movie, it's a movement.
02:36 And the song is going to be the anthem to this movement.
02:39 You know, when you really love something and believe in something, there's always someone
02:43 that's going to tell you, you're crazy, you can't do this, that's not going to work, it's
02:47 too strong, it burns too bright, do what you want to do.
02:50 And you know what?
02:51 It's going to work.
02:52 Because it can't put out the fire inside.
02:54 inside.
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