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When I think back on the making of Forrest Gump, my mind swirls in disbelief at what I and the film company went through to get that movie done. In order to get the cross-country run on film, we worked 27 days in a row. The show was relentless, but we got through it and maybe got a little bruised in the process, but, at the end of the day, we made the film we set out to make. -Tom Hanks Many of the amusing stories that Starkey tells in his trip down memory lane I had completely forgotten about. All I tend to remember about the shooting of the film was how hard it was. When I think back on the shots he describes, I remember my fears of having bumps in a camera move or if the shot was in focus. Steve's book is a look behind the curtain-an enjoyable firsthand account of the making of Forrest Gump. -Robert Zemeckis

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Academy Award-winning producer Steve Starkey is a longtime collaborator with legendary filmmaker Robert Zemeckis. After producing Death Becomes Her, his first film with Zemeckis, Starkey went on to produce and win the Academy Award for Best Picture on the film Forrest Gump. Following their film Contact, Zemeckis and Starkey formed the company ImageMovers with agent Jack Rapke. The first of their distinctive films with the new company included What Lies Beneath and Cast Away. After producing The Polar Express, Beowulf, and Monster House, the first feature-length films using motion-capture technology, Zemeckis, Rapke, and Starkey launched a company at Disney, Imagemovers Digital, to make feature films using that technology. A Christmas Carol and Mars Needs Moms were made under their new banner. During this time, Starkey produced films for a number of other directors, including Matchstick Men with Ridley Scott and The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio with Jane Anderson. Returning to live-action filmmaking, Zemeckis and Starkey continued their collaboration on Flight, The Walk, Allied, and Welcome to Marwen.Starkey is also the author of Breaking & Entering: The Education of a Film Producer.

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