Tuesday

Film: The Auteur and the Executive

Here's a great article from The Wall Street Journal about the dynamite executive producing duo, Steven Spielberg and Stacey Snider. It's a reminder of the importance of team work that film making requires no matter what your position is.


"I have a distinct image when we were working on the first "Transformers," and Steven asked me to come to a script meeting with him, Bay and the scriptwriters. We were downstairs in our courtyard—which is also very emblematic of Steven: he just wants to make it casual—and there are five guys in baseball hats and jeans. There was no indication in the seating, nor was there any indication in the flow of conversation, of hierarchy. And yet it is there in the room all the time. It doesn't intimidate because of his manner. What it does do is prompt you to rise to his standard so that if he asks your opinion, you are as thoughtful as you can be." -- The Auteur and the Executive, WSJ


Via Dan Bailes