hollywood producer laura ziskin is a founding producer of stand up to cancer.rself. patrick stood up publicly in september of 2008 appearing on an unprecedented fund-raising program on all three major broadcast networks. watch. >> i keep dreaming of a future. a future with a long and healthy life, a not lived in the shadow of cancer, but in the light. i dream that everyone diagnosed will be fortunate enough to have hope. that every human being lost to cancer is not gone, but is standing here with us tonight. tonight i stand here, another individual living with cancer who ask that we not wait any longer. i ask only one thing of you. will you stand up with me? >> larry: laura, what was the impact of him doing that? >> it was extraordinary. you know, i really met him after he was diagnosed with cancer. we asked him to open the show. he had not really been public yet. there he was, he stood in front of millions of people. he wrote those words himself. >> larry: you never produced a movie with him. you got to know him well after that. what do you remember most about