Education
Tisch School of the Arts. Pomona College.
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Jim Taylor
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Career
His credits as a producer include films such as Cedar Rapids and The Descendants. Taylor is a graduate of Bellevue High School and a 1984 graduate of Pomona College, a liberal arts school he attended instead of accepting an offer from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. Taylor began working for Cannon Films in 1987.
After visiting China on an Avery Foundation grant, Taylor returned to Los Angeles and spent three years working with Ivan Passer.
He also worked for Devon Foster, a director at Home Box Office, as Foster"s assistant. Taylor met Payne while working temporary jobs in Los Angeles, eventually moving in with him for financial reasons.
While roommates the two wrote short films and started writing Citizen Ruth. After winning money on the game show Wheel of Fortune, Taylor entered Tisch School of the Arts at the age of 30.
He and Payne did further rewrites on Citizen Ruth while Taylor was a graduate student.
The film got made during his third year there. Taylor received an Master of Fine Arts in Filmmaking from New York University in 1996.
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