The legendary Olivia De Havilland passed away yesterday. She was 104. Olivia made a powerful impact in my life and I had the pleasure to spend some time with her in Paris. I thanked her for her bravery and shared how her choices affected me and my brother (1/6)

and gave us opportunities to fight for our creative freedom.

She was a class act. I still have the kind and thoughtful letters she wrote me in longhand on beautiful blue stationery. They were of another era.

Here’s an excerpt from an interview I did sometime ago...(2/6)

We discovered that, despite having sold millions of records, not only were we not going to get paid a penny by our record company, but we were also millions and millions of dollars in debt. We educated ourselves and found out that in California there's a specific labor law (3/6)

which states that you can't be bound to a contract for more than seven years. At that time we were signed for nine years. So we used that labor law as a major source of leverage in our battle. (4/6)

It is called the De Havilland Law and was put into place thanks to the bravery of Olivia De Havilland in the 1940s. I ended up meeting with her in Paris, and we had a wonderful time together. (5/6)

I got to thank her for fighting the system back then so I could battle it now. It was amazing to meet her – she's a legend. We made a movie about our fight, it’s called Artifact. (6/6)