Chapter 11

Conversations with the Pros: Producing in the Real World

When you follow your bliss … doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn’t be a door for anyone else.

Joseph Campbell

In this chapter, an impressive array of producers and industry professionals share their professional practices and their personal odysseys; each chronicles that search for bliss that Joseph Campbell speaks about. Through sit-down interviews, emails, faxes, skype sessions, and transcontinental phone calls, each person shared his or her unique story with us; each injected moments of rich dimension into the preceding chapters. Their collective interviews form a body of work that is so interesting, it had to become ...

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