"Joseph S. Camp, Jr." is a motion picture director and writer who is best known as the creator and director of the Benji films.

He currently resides in Bell Buckle, Tennessee with his wife Kathleen. They previously owned property in Valley Center, California.

Camp is also known for his work with horses. He owns, and has trained, five horses who lived with him at his Valley Center Ranch. He has written a book about his experiences with horses, The Soul of a Horse.

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The first order of business was getting the rights cleaned up. So, we went through expedited arbitration ... Four and a half years, and my entire retirement [fund] later, we got all the rights back clean and clear.

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Very mild. Very, very mild over previous years. And that doesn't include any overtime costs or any of the repair bills from the plow trucks.

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The first Benji came out of a shelter and, without a whole lot of mission and passion attached -- just that it was a neat thing -- caused over a million adoptions. And so we said 'If we go back at it with a little fervor, we ought to be able to do a lot better than that and help a lot of these homeless animals,' .

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We spent about a year negotiating with Hollywood. Wound up negotiating real seriously with three studios -- a big one, a medium one and a small one. Every one of them came down to the same thing, control.

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We decided a long time ago that we were going to stay away from that.

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By lowering that bar and making kids believe that it's OK to do or say anything you want to at any given time gives no balance whatsoever, ... There's no longer any right or wrong.

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We had some significant repair bills last year and we ended up replacing one truck due to an accident. Hopefully, we won't have to touch it and we'll be ready for the start of next year.

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