James Schamus
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"James Schamus" is an American award-winning screenwriter, co-founder of Good Machine production company, and the CEO of Focus Features until its merging with FilmDistrict, the motion picture production, financing, and worldwide distribution company. His output includes as screenwriter The Ice Storm (film)/The Ice Storm, Eat Drink Man Woman/Eat, Drink, Man, Woman and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (film)/Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (all directed by Ang Lee), and as producer Brokeback Mountain, Lost in Translation (film)/Lost in Translation, Milk (film)/Milk, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Pianist (2002 film)/The Pianist, Coraline, The Kids Are All Right (film)/The Kids Are All Right, and the upcoming The Moon and the Sun (film)/The Moon and the Sun. He is Professor of Professional Practice in Columbia University’s School of the Arts, where he teaches film history and theory. He has also taught at Yale University and at Rutgers University. He is the author of Carl Theodor Dreyer's Gertrud: The Moving Word, published by the University of Washington Press. He earned his BA, MA, and Ph.D. in English from U.C. Berkeley/University of California, Berkeley.

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Look out that window and you see a lot of people, including a lot of young ladies, ... That's the future of our film.

They want us on 2,000 screens right away.

The Bridges of Madison County .

In terms of American culture, I think Ang has an enormous empathy for everything we are.

Damn if these characters aren't gay to me. What Jake might have meant is that these guys live outside of a social construction of a gay identity.

Distributors and filmmakers like me can see their films with real human beings.

We are going very delicately and subtly.

We looked for the places that sophisticated moviegoers seek out to find things that interest them. These are the people who are engaged with the world, who are informed about the big conspiracies going on out there.

It was extremely difficult to live in a fantasy world of movie and rock at the same time.