I have absolute respect for this man, who I didn't pay much attention to until recently. While his greatest contribution to film was the careers he propelled (Scorsese, Coppola, James Cameron, Ron Howard, Joe Dante, Jack Nicholson, Peter Fonda, Bruce Dern, Dick Miller of course), and he made some pretty damn good films including the tremendous Bucket of Blood, his philosophy toward his work is something that really resonates with me personally. He was always very practically minded, and treated his work as the business that it was. No genre or approach was off the table if it had the prospect to make a profit, no set couldn't be re-purposed, and no timetable was unrealistic. I think he shot Little Shop of Horrors in about 2 days. In that sense, I feel there are a lot of parallels between both he and the great Steve Albini who also died last week.
