Anecdotes

While Vice President at Warner Bros., Daniel R. Chavez was given advice and encouragement from Clint Eastwood to pursue his dream of directing.

During the filming of "Broken Glass", writer/director Daniel R. Chavez sent the head shot of Cesar Garcia (played Hector Villalobos) to the producers of "Breaking Bad". Cesar subsequently appeared in 5 episodes of the hit series.

Daniel R. Chavez studied with three of the top script writing gurus before penning his feature film debut "Broken Glass". They were Syd Field, Robert McKee and John Truby.

Daniel R. Chavez' drama group took 1st place in the southern California Shakespeare Festival Group Tragedy for "Romeo & Juliet" his Freshman year in high school. Daniel played the part of Romeo.

During post production on "Proof of Life", Daniel R. Chavez worked with composer Danny Elfman to configure the Warner Bros. scoring stage for multitudes of authentic tribal drums from Africa as well as other countries.

Daniel worked with Mc G on the initial previz (pre-visualization) for "Superman Returns" before Bryan Singer came aboard.

Daniel worked with director Dennie Gordon on turning the Warner Bros. scoring stage into a set for her film "New York Minute" featuring the Olsen twins.

While an executive at Disney, Daniel proposed at the famously secret Club 33 in Disneyland. His oldest son Stephen was born on December 5th - the same day Walt Disney was born.