Overview (1)

Mini Bio (1)

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Trivia (12)



Collects houses designed by Frank Lloyd Wright

He is credited with creating the sport of Ultimate Frisbee.



Attended the New York University Film School.



Considered the primary founder of Ultimate frisbee in 1968 at Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey.



Runs two production companys - Silver Pictures and DarkCastle Entertainment. Co-owned by Robert Zemeckis.



Attended Lafayette College where he formed the first collegiate Ultimate Frisebee team in 1970.



Lives in Los Angeles and Malibu, California.



He has a home, Auldbrass Plantation, South Carolina.



He grew up in South Orange, New Jersey.



Designated "Lawrence of Arabia" as his favorite all-time film for an AFI poll.



Personal Quotes (14)

I want an explosion the size of Cleveland.





[After seeing the poor box office of Straßen in Flammen (1984).] "Tonight is what it means to be dead."

When California provides the same value as other locations, I'd gladly shoot all my pictures here.



...My advice to young Producers... The only way to succeed is to get behind a screen-play you really believe in.



I'm not in the business to make art; I'm in it to make money to buy art.



[on his contract with Warner Studios]: Maybe I will continue with Warner and maybe I won't. I hope I do.



On his recent film: It's a little movie, but a big little movie.



There aren't a lot of guys like me left. But I'm a war horse. I've been through it all. And you know something about war horses? Through the sleet, through the snow,they just keep going.



The core of the movie business remains intact and it's not descending in scope. Studios want movies that are bigger than ever.



[on movies]: That's how fascinated I was with movies. I was fascinated with the lifestyle of these guys--how they lived, how they ran the show. They guys lived like Saudi princes.



(On Lethal Weapon film) We blasted a toilet out of that window. Over there, we drove a car straight into the living room.



(On the film "Brewster's Millions) Fantasies about spending are irresistible, the best! Who wouldn't want to indulge the luxury of squandering millions and millions of dollars?



(On money) I hunted with a credit card.

