John Calley(1930-2011)

Received the Irving Thalberg Memorial Award from the Oscars in 2009.

One problem with Hollywood is that most of the people in studio jobs nowadays are afraid of the process of making movies. The actual fact of filmmaking is an alien thing to them...You try to get somebody to do a movie for you, but then, once that person commits to the project, you do everything you possibly can to neutralize him so that he can't do what you've hired him to do in the first place. (1994)