"It was the beginning of film for television. So we had all of these great opportunities. Northwestern was probably the only major film school of its kind at the time that was graduating anybody important."

Time, Beginning, Film, School

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"It was the beginning of film for television. So we had all of these great opportunities. Northwestern was probably the only major film school of its kind at the time that was graduating anybody important."

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"When when my first feature opportunity came along, I wasn't prepared, but we did it in about 17 days."

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"If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world."

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"I was very lucky. I started my own commercial company."

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