The Importance of Hiring Friends

Hollywood is about the meetings. The movies are trivial. You want those good meetings, right? So you want to hire your friends and funny people. George tended to hire these guys. I almost get the feeling he was just friends with. Even Lawrence Kasdan,. when he hired him for Empire Strikes Back, how did he find him? He went to Spielberg and Spielberg was like, I got this guy working on Continental Divide, which I'm producing. And it's like Continental Divide Raiders Empire Strikes Back. It's a jimballushi romcom. That part is almost as important as what you write. Who knows where your career will go in some ways.