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New York means so much to people. If you're inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most people think they have to go, and it's been that way since the first skyscraper.

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It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality.

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I produced six movies with Amy Robinson since the very early '80s.

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On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all.

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As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I feel like I should have been doing all along.

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But I remember feeling as a producer I felt like the guy who called the caterer and got the band; I had to work the party while everybody else was having a good time.

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My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.

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Every movie is wildly different. So many of the problems are the same, but they take on different guises.

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But at the same time, never having final cut before, I really learned an interesting thing for any studio executive who is reading this: that if a director has final cut, it's actually easier and more interesting to listen to notes.

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I think we were the first picture to cut on Final Cut Pro. So we were the guinea pigs, because we got a deal on the system. But with that comes all sorts of technological problems I couldn't begin to describe.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: June 8th, 1955

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