"It was the summer of 1974, and I had a job busing tables at the Harborside restaurant in Martha's Vineyard. On a particular Saturday evening, a movie scout crew came in and sat at one of the tables. After dinner, they paid their bill and left, but somebody had left a valise under the table; I found the owner and returned it to him -- he just happened to be the Production Designer, and was intensely grateful because the valise contained the storyboards for a movie, soon to be made, called 'Jaws'. That chance meeting ultimately turned into a job as a local hire: my first film job was sweeping the dirt floor of the shed where the boat, Orca, was built. That summer I worked as a laborer, a carpenter, a painter, and a glorified gopher, and ultimately ended up working with the special effects crew on the shark. I was fascinated by the whole process of film-making, and so excited about being a part of it that, as soon as the show was done, I came right out to Hollywood."