Larry Kasanoff , a movie producer and former studio head, has lessons from his career taking passionate risks to make groundbreaking movies like Platoon, Dirty Dancing, and Mortal Kombat. And he said, and again, since then I give a speech when I start every movie, “You don’t work for me, you don’t work for the director, you don’t work for the studio, you work for the audience.” CURT NICKISCH: That’s Larry Kasanoff, movie producer and author of the book, A Touch of the Madness.