The second law is that you avoid anybody with connections to George Bush and Dick Cheney.Ms Womack-Kolton worked as Dick Cheney's press secretary during the 2004 election.
And yet so many of your "serious" movies tiptoe around areas of real public concern, trying to be vaguely topical while strenuously working to avoid offending anybody.
Whereas they might once have been corporate suppliers, bankers or customers, today big companies try vigorously to avoid recruiting anybody who could conceivably have a conflict of interest.The idea of directors' independence is not without controversy.
And he made a point of showing respect for differing views, telling students that they should have the courage to speak up "even when it's unpopular", to "do the right thing, not the easy thing" and to avoid becoming anybody's "lapdog or sycophant".
The man is famous for saying nothing out of both sides of his mouth in order to avoid antagonizing anybody.
He's taken not just a sentimental object, or even a sentimental song, but a whole sentimental universe, and largely managed to avoid pissing anybody off.
In such cases, do your best to avoid treating anybody else in a similar fashion.
Read up on every culture you'll encounter and want to photograph; that way you'll be able to avoid distressing anybody.
