Foreword
For more than fifty years, I have nurtured new talent and young filmmakers in the independent film business. As a producer of more than three hundred independent movies, I have had the good fortune of working with such up-and-coming actors as Jack Nicholson and Sandra Bullock, and filmmakers who have gone on to be among the premier filmmakers in the mainstream studio industry, such as James Cameron, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Jonathan Demme, and Ron Howard. In 2009, at the annual Governors Awards, I was honored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) with an honorary Oscar, where I cited film as the only true modern art form and saluted and challenged independent filmmakers to keep gambling ...
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