Word: scrounger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hollywood elite-David Lynch (The Elephant Man), John Carpenter (Halloween), Martin Brest (Going in Style), Sean Cunningham (Friday the 13th), John Landis (The Blues Brothers)-got started in the business with pictures that cost $100,000 or less. It can be done. Just follow the advice of another ex-scrounger, Martin Scorsese: "You should just start working wherever you can! Get out, knock on every door, sneak into the studio. Drive counts. This is Hollywood." Scorsese might have added that, nowadays, Hollywood is wherever people with drive and dreams get together to make movies. So watch out, L.A. The next...