"HE WAS THE FIRST DIRECTOR OF THE FIRST FILM THAT WE EVER PRODUCED"
Last night, at the 34th Annual Producers Guild Awards in Los Angeles, "Tom Cruise was honored with the David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures," Mulderville reports. Sherry Lansing handed Cruise the award, and in his acceptance speech, Cruise again told the story of meeting Brian De Palma while eating dinner at Steven Spielberg's house:
And it was actually at his dinner table that I met Brian De Palma, and I went home, and I stayed up that night, all night into the next day, and I was reviewing all of De Palma's films. And I called Paula [Wagner] and I called Sherry—remember that? The next day—and later we offered him Mission: Impossible. And he was the first director of the first film that we ever produced.