Rick Schwartz is a New York–based film producer and financier whose credits include The Others, The Departed, and Black Swan. His writing has been published in The Huffington Post, Grantland, and The Times of London. He is an adviser and board member for several tech companies.

THE REAL EASTWOOD

Everyone's blasting his empty-chair speech, but all he did was give us a glimpse of his true, eccentric self.

Staying Home

Movie producer Rick Schwartz has loved going to the movies all his life. The Aurora shootings changed everything, he writes.