Review – Directors Guild of America Quarterly – Winter 2012
Review – Amy Edelman – IndieReader – August 23, 2012
Review – Jennifer Bonges – Goodreads – January 5, 2012
Review – Sheila Deeth – Gather.com – July 14, 2011
Review – Hubert O’Hearn – By the Book – August 15, 2011
Review – Lauren’s Thoughts – July 11, 2011
My search for the best (and most affordable) visual effects designer I could find led me to the Roger Corman Company. Corman is famous for making a lot of movies on very cheap budgets, employing first-timers who become big-timers—from Scorsese to Coppola to Howard. Everyone there was raving about a young hotshot who was the art director and visual effects guru on Roger’s latest $3-dollar (as in extremely low budget) sci-fi epic Battle Beyond the Stars. So I arranged to meet with him.
His name was James Cameron.
Though Jim reeked talent, no one would have guessed he was going to become one of the greatest filmmakers of our time.
