Acknowledgements

Tribute to “The Deb”

I had been doing my job for about 21 years when I wrote this book. I met Deb Schneider when I was still a grip driver, in about 1983. I had worked for many production managers before meeting her and have worked for several since then. I give tribute to Deb for the mere fact that I have traveled to several parts of the world with her in charge of production. Every time, and I mean every time, Deb had it together. From the moment I got the call for a booking, everything was, or so it always seemed, on automatic. There were storyboards (drawings of what has to be filmed), scouting, equipment, the shoot, the wrap, … the paycheck. Everything on time, every single time. On domestic and international jobs, from ...

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