![]() ![]() While you’re shooting, you’re constantly under crazy scrutiny and being checked all the time. JAY ROACH It was called Asleep at the Wheel, and it was about a person who was headed to law school and gets kidnapped by a sort of hippie free-spirit woman who takes him on a ride before his LSATs and changes his whole life. I was one of the rare ones who really wanted to be a producer, so when it came time to do the 480, I got to meet with all the directors, and I basically got to pick who I thought was the most talented person. Most people in film production come to USC wanting to be directors. ![]() But the “old old” one was a tiny kind of ramshackle building that said “Sleep is for sissies” when you opened the door. SUZANNE TODD I came when they were tearing down the old film school, which I guess now we have to call the “old old film school” because there have been two since then. Jay Roach, 61, and Suzanne Todd, 53, director and producer, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery The program teaches you about the value of connections. I brought it to Debra Hill, whom I was working for on a trial basis, and she hired me. But when I had finished the Stark program, David gave me this script of another movie. He said, “David wrote this script and maybe you could get him to meet Twisted Sister.” The screenplay was called Twisted Summer. I had this internship for a music video director, and I worked on all these crazy ’80s videos, including Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Gonna Take It.” A was doing an internship with a writer named David Simkins. In my class were Liz Glotzer and Neal Moritz. Our classes were at night because all our teachers were working professionals. We started in the barracks and moved into the old new building in our second year. I went to the Peter Stark Producing Program. Stacey Sher, 56, producer, Erin Brockovich and Django Unchained I looked at my dad and said, “A school taught by Jerry Lewis? Are you kidding me? I’m going there!” And I got there, and he wasn’t teaching anymore. I came here because I was watching The Tonight Show one night with my dad, and Jerry Lewis, the comedian, came on and was talking about how he teaches directing in the film school at USC. And I was this kid from Indiana who had no idea what I was doing. One of my buddies was Kevin Jewison, Norman Jewison’s son, another was Ray Bradbury’s daughter. But everyone I went to school with was the son or daughter of somebody famous. We were still using Super 8 film, and you had to take it to the lab and have it processed, pick it up, edit it and then bring it to class. When I was at the School of Cinematic Arts, we were in a horse barn - literally - left over from World War I. Stone, producer, Legends of the Hidden Temple ![]()
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