Marvin J. Chomsky, 4-Time Emmy-Winning Director on ‘Roots’ and ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 92
interview with the Director’s Guild of America, he explained that his stories were never about broad-scale events but always focused on the individual families at their core. In the same interview, he even recounted a story while filming “Holocaust” about instructing a group of extras on how they would be killed by Nazi forces in the concentration camps, only for a cameraman to push back and suggest that the scene was embellished and invented for the movie.