Biography

Thom Mount began his career working for legendary producer Roger Corman. Then on to Universal Pictures where he quickly rose through the studio's ranks. At the age of 26, Mount was named President of Universal Pictures. Dubbed a "Baby Mogul" by Time Magazine, Mount was responsible for developing and overseeing over 200 feature films during his tenure at Universal, including Smokey and the Bandit, National Lampoon's Animal House, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Breakfast Club, Monty Python's Meaning of Life, Car Wash, Deer Hunter, The Blues Brothers, Back to the Future and Scarface.

After eight years at Universal's top post, Mount became a successful independent producer. Some of the films that Mount is best known for include Can't Buy Me Love, Tequila Sunrise, Natural Born Killers and the baseball classic Bull Durham. His film Death and the Maiden was first produced by Mount as a successful Broadway play. Mount served two terms President of the Producers Guild of America, an organization which he helped to revitalize. The Mount Company currently has several films in pre-production.
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous

It is not that violent pictures create more violence, but the constant litany of gratuitous violence that is destructive of the fabric of the culture because it lowers our threshold for sensitivity to the issue.

Hollywood regards the South as an ethnic backwater and a cultural backwater, and I think it is nonsense. I'd like to point out that anything from "Bull Durham" to "Smokey and the Bandit" to "An Officer and a Gentleman" has some sort of Southern setting, and there are lots of compelling, commercial stories to be made there.