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When I Was Really Young I Didn't Know That There Was Such A Thing As A Screenwriter. I Wrote Stories.

If You Write A Movie For Roger Corman, It's Going To Get Made. You Saw It Almost The Next Day.

I Made It About A Three-day Weekend So People Wouldn't Have To Change Their Clothes A Lot. We Didn't Have An Art Department; We Didn't Have A Make-up Department.

The Hardest Thing About Movies Is Doing Take 12, 13, And 14, And Finding New Ways To Do The Same Lines. So The Early Takes Are Actually Easier And I Think There's More Surprises In Them.

But Compared To Writing A Novel, Where You Can Be God, I Did The Bay Of Pigs Invasion In Six Pages Once, And There Were 50,000 Guys With Boots That I Didn't Have To Pay, And All Those Extras; We Didn't Have To Pay Them.