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Welcome to a special episode of the projection booth.

I'm your host, Mike White.

On this episode, I am talking to producer James D. Stern.

He has been behind quite a few things over the years.

He's been working for over 20 years now,

and you will recognize quite a few of the

titles that we discuss on this particular interview. I hope you enjoy. I see that you're a

fellow Wolverine. Oh, yeah. Yes. I bleed amazing blue blood, I have to say. My dad went to Michigan. My other brother went to Michigan for years, so I come from Michigan family. So I always love me then. The only school I was going to go to, and that's what I did. So I got into the business, you know, really from the jump, I produced all the musket shows

of Michigan, which are a student-run theater that they do there, and that is my program

for a couple years, three years, actually, and I went from there and then got a job in New York

in the Manhattan Theater Club. There was a guy who was ahead of Michigan who had a musketchers who got a job there

and then he gave me an internship from Michigan to there.

And working at Dia for a couple years, then we worked in business for a couple of years,

that, you know, it was less than my liking.

You went to graduate school because you know, get was less than my liking. You went to go out of school, because

you know, get myself kind of organized at Columbia, and then eventually started producing

it. Although it took a while, you know, it took a while to break in and, and with flexibly

an entrepreneur, so I wasn't going to be somebody who was going to get a job in a more so

traditional way,

and never worked on agency, and I'd work for the studio.

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