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Chris Columbus has brought to the screen some of the biggest American family films in the last 20 years:\\xa0Adventures in Babysitting, Home Alone,\\xa0and\\xa0Mrs. Doubtfire. He also produced and directed the first two\\xa0Harry Potter\\xa0films and produced the third as well.\\xa0Despite this success, Columbus admits that he \\u201calways, to this day, [feels] like [he\\u2019s] gonna walk on a movie and get fired.\\u201d He reveals to Alec what it was like working with brilliant improvisers like John Candy and Robin Williams\\u2014and casting Macaulay Culkin in\\xa0Home Alone.

The first time acclaimed director Stephen Daldry was expected to shout \\u201cAction!\\u201d he thought it was a joke. Alec met with Stephen Daldry in 2011, weeks before his intimate, post-9/11 drama,\\xa0Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, opened. Daldry\\u2019s work is precise and intimate, but in conversation with Alec he was passionate about a wide variety of topics, including communal living, the virtues of mass transit, and the Olympics.

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