About Art Linson

Art Linson ’s producing credits include The Untouchables, Heat, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Scrooged, Fight Club and Into the Wild. He has written two books, A Pound of Flesh: Perilous Tales of How to Produce Movies in Hollywood and What Just Happened?: Bitter Hollywood Tales from the Front Line. Most recently, he wrote the screenplay for and produced What Just Happened?, starring Robert De Niro and directed by Barry Levinson. Here, Linson shares his golden rules for surviving Hollywood.