Luke Greenfield Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
Luke Greenfield (born February 5, 1972) is an American film director and screenwriter. He is best known for directing "The Girl Next Door" (2004 film). Greenfield directed the pilot of the television series "Aliens in America" and produced the film "Role Models". His new film Let's Be Cops, which he co-wrote, produced and directed is slated to open on August 13, 2014.
Net Worth
$2 Million
Date Of Birth
February 5, 1972
Place Of Birth
Manhassett, New York, USA
Height
5' 8" (1.73 m)
Occupation
Director, writer
Profession
Director, Producer, Writer
Nicknames
Luke Greenfield, Greenfield, Luke
Star Sign
Aquarius
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Quote
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When my mom realized I seriously wanted to become a director, she wrote a letter to Steven Spielberg. I was sixteen years old and my mom wrote this letter saying, 'My son has wanted to be you since he was ten. It's all he wants to do and I've never seen a kid so passionate for a dream at such a young age... We don't know anyone in Hollywood, we don't know how the business works, can you please tell me if my son has what it takes?' With the letter she enclosed two of my super eight movies and a research paper I did on Spielberg. Well, she sent it to Amblin and forgot to include a return address. Even to this day we don't know how it worked out, but somehow, some way Steven read my mom's letter, was touched, watched my little super eight movies, and turned to his assistant and said, 'Find this kid.' Steven wrote me this heartfelt two-page handwritten letter. It changed my life. I still have it memorized. He wrote in the end, 'Your raw beginnings are so similar to my own, I know you'll make it. The next stage for you is film school.' And the most important part of that letter is when he gave me advice on how to reach audiences. What he was saying was, 'It's the 'truth in the telling' of stories that really reaches people.' I remember him saying these great stories can be found in your hometown and in your neighborhood. Basically he was saying Jaws, E.T., Poltergeist, these huge-concept movies, what they're really about is how relevant they are to us as people and the relationships and the things we go through. That's why his movies have reached so many billions of people.... I still keep the letter in the original UPS brown package in a drawer in my desk. He's definitely been a strong influence in my life.
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I'll be honest with you, my goal during making "The Animal" was: Don't get fired. Because if I got fired, it was over. It would mean I couldn't handle a film with the big boys. This was not a filmmaker's movie; this was a first-time director's entry into the business where I had very little creative input. It was extremely frustrating, but I was very fortunate to get that experience so early in my career. "The Girl Next Door" was the exact opposite experience. I had co-written the script, I had a lot more control and I was very passionate in making the movie.
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I was obsessive about it. It was like USC film school or die. When I was thirteen, I started writing letters to the film school. I would send my super eight movies. So by the time I was eighteen and able to apply to USC, they all knew me.
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Fact
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His favorite all-time band is U2. He continues to write all of his movies to their music. At one point, The Girl Next Door (2004) contained three U2 songs: "In a Little While," "Bad," and "One Tree Hill".
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WideAwake, Inc., his production company, is named after his favorite student film he made at the USC Film School. The student film's soundtrack was to U2's "Bad," which contains the lyrics, "I'm Wide Awake."
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His mother named him after Paul Newman's unstoppable rebel character in Cool Hand Luke (1967) which turned out to be one of his all-time favorite movies.
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Graduated from Staples High School in Westport, Connecticut, Class of 1990
