This pretty much sums it all up. Thanks Mr. Cheyefsky! Thanks Mr. Lumet! (and thanks Amanda Johnson-Zetterstrom for the tip!)
Ted Hope is a “holistic film producer”: he aims to be there from the beginning and then forever after, involved in every aspect of a film’s life cycle and ecosystem, as committed to engineering serendipity as preventing problems, as obsessed with lifting the good into the great, as he is…