So I make my deal and get the shooting script for SPACE JAM. It’s actually not titled SPACE JAM yet. I don’t remember …
DIANE KEATON When I first started doing commercials, Diane Keaton was doing them as well. I cast her in a commercial for …
Everybody’s on the internet. Facebook, Twitter, Google, Myspace, Ebay, Netflix, Vimeo, Hulu, etc. etc. etc. timewastersall. Everybody’s trying to figure out how …
I really don’t remember exactly when I worked with Woody’s ex. I just remember it was extremely difficult. Louise Lasser was playing a transmission …
I discovered the magazine while I was trying to survive engineering school at Pitt (University of Pittsburgh). I would go the the …
number ones MUHAMMAD ALI Heavyweight Boxing Champion My NUMBER ONE NUMBER ONE is Muhammad Ali. Not only do I think he’s the …
I started collecting authentic material to reconstruct a Santa Fe property. A guy from the village of Mora would bring a pickup truck …
TAKES I ran into an old editor I knew and we chatted a bit and he remarked to the friends I was …
Madonna had asked me to do a documentary of her BLOND AMBITION TOUR and I was interested, but not really interested, in …
THE HURDLER I was filming a Kodak spot for the Los Angeles Olympics and we had some authentic Olympic hopefuls. The amateur conditions …
I had just won a cinematography award and Hannah asked me for a favor. Robert Towne wanted to do a screen test of …
On my second tour of living (?) in New York, I fell in love with the Spanish Restaurant, El Faro, in The …
I was re re re re reading Larry McMurtry’s book of essays, FILM FLAM, a journal of some of his impressions of …
I was doing a road film on Rte 66 and got a call to do an electric truck commercial for Cummins Diesel. I …
Ed McCabe and I were having lunch and Ed said that he and George Lois were upset that the FOUR SEASONS restaurant …
WILL WORK FOR FOOD I discovered Venice by accident. I was traveling from Milan to Vienna on a tour of concert halls, La …
Back in the day, I always stayed at great hotels, THE BEVERLY HILLS in Los Angeles, THE ST. REGIS in New York, …
I was filming a mindless Miller Beer spot in Louisana. All Miller wanted were scenes of interesting people (no women) having a …
I’ve already spoken about ‘scripts’ and how ridiculous most are. On the two films I’ve done, the writers simply didn’t know what …
I had a huge fight with the record company about the video. They wanted to pull the footage and edit themselves because the …
Ray LoFaro had moved to Hollywood to try to get into films. He and I worked on a few things, a CHARLIE …
One of the things I find missing in work today is TRUST. Trust in using people that will get the job done no …
…an unlikely name. I first became aware of Haskell in a curious way. I used to read the classified columns in the …
NYVSLA When I first started working in New York, I found that the various talents there far exceeded those in Hollywood, especially …
SAN JOSE DE GRACIA This is a fabulous Church in the village of Las Trampas, New Mexico. When I was restoring Las …
We were in Paris nearing the end of the epic Perrier shoot. I wanted to get a sunrise shot of the Seine. An …
I began to stay at the Pershing Hall Hotel in Paris after Andree Putman redesigned it, despite the fact that it wasn’t …
We were doing a documentary on William Steinberg, the noted Conductor and Music Director of The Pittsburgh Symphony. At the time, that symphony …
THE GREAT GATSBY is the best book I have ever read. I have no idea how many times I’ve read it but each …
MOS is a term that says the film has no soundtrack. There a myth that it means Mit Out Sound, credited to …
When we were filming Bo Diddley and Bo Jackson onstage for the BO KNOWS commercial, a musician showed Bo Jackson how to …
This was Dave Kennedy’s passion and I’m glad that I was able to help a bit along the way. The campaign opened …
Out of the blue, I get a script for an Anheuser-Busch commercial for the Super Bowl involving soldiers at an airport and …
Bud Light wants to do the first beer commercial that features a woman. It’s a spot about the fears of a downhill …
Alain had been the sous-chef at Citrus under Michel Richard, but Richard got sick of Los Angeles and moved to acclaim in …
The teamster came to me. ‘What happened to the Clydesdales?’ ‘The brewery got taken over by a European conglomerate and they don’t …
I was trying to finish the film on motocross racing and hit a wall. It was just a bunch of guys riding …
THE JUDGMENT OF PARIS Lucas Carton, La Tour D’ Argent, L’Ambroisie, Louis XV, Le Restaurant, L’Orangerie, Le Saint-Germain, Ma Maison, Citrus. My …
We had pillaged Kubrick’s 2001 for an idea for a commercial with Garry Kasparov playing chess against a computer. The idea was …
At QED we were almost a happy family, probably because we were there for a cause, working for minimum wage under extreme …
About the same time I became aware of Sir Ridley’s work, I saw his brother, Tony’s, astonishing as well, but different. I found …
I first became aware of Ridley’s work at David Dee’s place. David was the premier editor in New York and his partner was …
Howard was a legend in the transformation of advertising into a sorta art form. When I was doing documentaries (and hating ads) I …
HINES WARD So we’re shooting a Super Bowl commercial with the Steelers and Seahawks for Disney. Of course, the clients ask for …
I was in New York and had just finished filming a spot with Deion and Denis Leary. It wasn’t as pleasant as it …
The chess script with Kasparov called for a little girl to stymie him. I thought that was a predictable ending, but I asked …
Sunshine Parker was an important actor in a few Henry’s commercials that we did. He was a perfect codger. We first used him in …
Frank Lowe strode across the stage in Cannes using the classic British staggerwalk made famous by Alec Guiness in THE BRIDGE ON …
I’m working on a Census campaign directed towards American Indians (not Native Americans) because of their lack of representation in the Federal …
When I got the Cindy Crawford Pepsi script, it had her getting out of a limo with high heels. Made no sense. Why would …
