I am gangster film 2015 film festival12/25/2022 ![]() ![]() ![]() That Midwest influence, is it something you can absorb early in life and it lasts?Ī: I think so. Q: You talked to the Traverse City Film Festival about the influence of growing up in Detroit, before your family moved to California and you attended Beverly Hills High School. ![]() My father met with Henry Ford and designed that bridge. (Ford) wanted a 19th-Century rural bridge over a stream, but he wanted it built with 20th-Century steel reinforced concrete, with cobblestones or something. Did you have any family connection with the auto companies?Ī: No, other than the fact that my father was a civil engineer and he met Henry Ford when they were doing some additions to Greenfield Village. Have you noticed that?Ī: Right, if you couldn't make it in the automobile industry, you came to Hollywood. Q: There are so many people in the film industry who have some connection to Detroit, it seems as if we're an incubator for talent. And Bob was saying, "I grew up near the 7 Mile Road, and we thought we were in a middle-class suburb." And I said, "Bob, I grew up near 6 Mile Road and I thought we were a middle-class suburb!" In it, 8 Mile Road was portrayed as a slum. There's a story about that, because Bob Shaye, who was the head of New Line, grew up in Detroit also, and Curtis Hanson, the director who started with me, made a picture called "8 Mile" with Eminem. ANSWER: Yes, our house was near 6 Mile, I don't remember the intersection.
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