“He’s one of my favorites I’ve got to say,” Schoeller says of Michael Douglas. He got a call from New York magazine to photograph the actor, and they asked him what he would like to do. “Why don’t you find out if I can photograph him at home?” Schoeller asked. “That is always my first question and the answer is always no. So they called his PR person then they called me back 20 minutes later and said, ‘Yeah, we can photograph him at home do you want to go and scout it this afternoon?’ Schoeller was stunned. That had never happened to him before. “Then I met with his publicist who he {Douglas} has been working with for 35 years or something. So that is the ideal scenario. You have someone that really knows him. Who is not afraid of him. Not afraid of him looking for another publicist. He was a smart guy who knows the power of photography. How important it is to have great pictures of your client out there. And he gave me a tour of Michael Douglas’s apartment on the upper West Side. And he had two hours in the morning so we had to get to the apartment by 6:00 a.m. to be ready for an 8:30 shoot. And Michael Douglas was walking around offering us coffee while we were setting up lights. He is one of the great exceptions in a world that is normally a lot more difficult,” said Schoeller.