The movie that "pissed off" James Cameron
clearly the moment that the journey to Star Wars began.
Roger Christian • Cinema Alchemist: Designing Star Wars and Alien
George and Gary left the next day. I found out later, when we were in Los Angeles, that George had hired us for Star Wars, or The Journal of the Whills as it was called then. I was the third person hired. First was John Barry as production designer, and then Geoffrey Unsworth as director of photography, and third was me as the set decorator (noted
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when a hungry industry saw Star Wars become insanely popular and then learned it was built from a template and could thus be replicated, all hell broke loose.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
Long before he made movies, after he dropped out of community college, Cameron spent about ten years working low-wage manual labor jobs. He was a truck driver, a school bus mechanic, a high school janitor, a precision tool and die machinist, and so on. “It was a long period of frustration for me in this kind of blue-collar life,” he said. “I was fr
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