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...Conservatory and directed his first film, a comedy short about two bank-robbing cowboys called “Lanton Mills.” He simultaneously worked as a writer and script doctor on several large-scale productions before setting out on his own as a director, disillusioned with Hollywood studio employment...
...crystal ball, and I've never had one, even though I'm accused of having one secreted away somewhere. I don't. And I don't know. I'm lucky at this point in my career that I can make the movies I want to make without having a studio come in and second-guess me. I always say thank goodness for Jaws, because Jaws gave me final cut. I've had it now for 30 years, and because of that I only have myself to blame for anything that goes wrong...
Nobody was really sure ifDylan's long-delayed, much-ballyhooed autobiography would ever get written, and if it did, if it would actually make any sense. It did both: skipping forward and back in time, Chronicles covers Dylan's Minnesota beginnings, his influences (Bertolt Brecht?), his studio sessions, his grouchy discomfort with fame and his sense (while on tour with Tom Petty in the 1980s) of being not so much tangled up as washed up. It's coy and revealing at the same time--in other words, quintessentially Dylanesque...
...time Jeff Skoll, CEO of the newly formed film company Participant Productions, got the script for Good Night, and Good Luck--about the showdown between heralded 1950s news anchor Edward R. Murrow and infamous communist witch hunter Joseph McCarthy--it had been turned down by every studio in Hollywood. "Once I started to learn about McCarthyism and about what Murrow did, the story struck me as very relevant to what's going on today with this Administration and things like the Patriot Act," says Canadian-born Skoll. Nonetheless, Skoll also passed on making the script, which George Clooney had originally...
...between business and philanthropy, is encouraged by the track record of other movies with a message that have achieved commercial success, such as Schindler's List, Gandhi and Hotel Rwanda. Persuading big- name stars like Frances McDormand and Charlize Theron to work on feel-good projects for a fledgling studio was a hurdle at first. "In the early days, we spent a lot of time trying to find people who were interested in what we were doing," he says. "Now we are inundated with people coming to us--actors, writers, directors--with great, entertaining projects. I've found that everybody...