Kip Spidell, executive producer at Kip Spidell Factual Inc.

1. I have produced wildlife films featuring every North American animal larger than a pack of smokes.

2. I am a reading freak, zipping through a novel a day when on a beach or on a long flight. I actually get anxious if I don’t have a least two books and a handful of magazines in my carry-on when heading to the airport.

3. I have been an ordained minister of an obscure California-based church since the mid ’70s, courtesy of a classified ad in the back of Rolling Stone magazine. I have the power to officiate at weddings, but not to get God to smite people, which might have proved useful in production meetings.