Sublime

The set was almost finished and ready for shooting. We were just adding the final touches when a car arrived and pulled to a stop. Two figures got out looking more like film students than a Hollywood director and producer. George Lucas was in his now familiar plaid shirt, jeans, and sneakers that was his daily wear and still is, and Gary Kurtz in a

The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner was originally an hour long, but the television executives asked me to cut it down to exactly forty-four minutes and ten seconds so it would fit in their schedule. I never felt I was compromising anything by editing the film down to that length. Filmmaking is a craft, and as far as I’m concerned being a craft

People at the top of an organization are always sending out clues that indicate what behavior is acceptable. And that is nowhere more critical than in naming elephants.

Sergeant Hoke Moseley, Homicide, Miami Police Department, filled a Styrofoam cup with free coffee—his third—picked up a glazed doughnut from the assortment on the clear plastic tray and put it back, then doctored his coffee with Sweet ‘n’ Low and N-Rich Coffee Creamer.