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Rick Rosenthal (Transparent, Bad Boys, Halloween II) discusses wearing multiple hats in both film and television, and the efforts of his production company, White Water Films. We talk about: Selling vs. Not Selling Scripts Bonding in Television vs. Film Producing vs. Directing in Television Working on ‘Transparent’ Script Notes and Editing for the Long Haul in Television Improvisation and Mapping Out Seasons in Television “Is this Story a Movie or a Series?” Today’s Movies and Budgets Producing vs. Directing in Film Investing in Productions and Setting Expectations Balancing Film and TV Projects Casting Big Names Building and Maintaining Relationships Quotes from the show: "You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make a duck wear a saddle. I thought that sort of summed up Hollywood well for me." “Television needs… to sort of look at the way novels are structured and layered, and [how] things are set up and developed over time. Most television hasn&r