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- Marshall Herskovitz is a writer, producer, and director in Los Angeles who has won many awards for his work in television and film. Born in Philadelphia, he attended Brandeis University, then moved to Los Angeles in 1975, where he attended the American Film Institute and met his longtime creative partner Edward Zwick. In the years since he helped create such series as Thirtysomething, My So-Called Life, and Once and Again. Among the films he has produced are Legends of the Fall, Traffic, The Last Samurai, Blood Diamond and Love and Other Drugs. He also directed Jack the Bear and Dangerous Beauty.
In 2007 Herskovitz migrated to the Internet with Quarterlife, the ground-breaking online series and social network dedicated to artistic, activist twenty-somethings. A year after launch, the website - www.quarterlife.com - has become an international destination with members in 60 countries, and the series is now the most successful scripted program in Internet history.
Herskovitz, a longtime environmentalist, has served on the board of several organizations dedicated to preserving America's precious natural resources. He is a founding member of the national 1Sky campaign.
He is currently serving as President of the Producers Guild of America.
- IMDb mini biography by: Humanitas Official Website
- SpousesLandry Major(? - present)
- Constantly works with director Edward Zwick
- BA, Brandeis University, 1973
- Has produced half of Edward Zwick's theatrically released films, and has also contributed to the screenplay of two of them as of October 2009. The two of them also work extensively on television together.
- The notion that moving toward renewable energy will kill jobs is an absurdity on its face. The notion that we have to live smaller lifestyles; not have the American way of life or give up the American Dream is just ridiculous. It is the opposite of the case; a new energy paradigm will create opportunity.
- Even the most brilliant accomplishments on the Internet are essentially cold. Google has changed the world, but you don't snuggle up to it. YouTube is a giant carnival, filled with freaks and mountebanks, a place to gawk and laugh and get bored. Certainly not a place to feel anything.
- The pilot system in television is utterly broken. It's a huge waste of money.
- The producer is at the center of entertainment. The producer is being forgotten, and producers must seize the center of activity.
- After I graduated from Brandeis, I took all the money I had in the world, which was $5,000, and I made a short film. I made every mistake you could possibly make. It was a total disaster as a piece of work, and yet, you know, it was ambitious in some way.
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