All Terry Southern Quotes
When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian.
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When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor.
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Grossing Out dealt with the western nations selling arms to the Third World and exploiting these countries.
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In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.
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The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.
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Blue Movie was based on an idea that Stanley Kubrick had. Somebody came by one day with some porn footage.
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It was a good experience working with Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda.
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You can't do the end of the world in a conventionally dramatic way or Boy Meets Girl way.
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I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers.
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Writing on a contract for a major studio you get the very best.
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Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States.
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Sometimes we would be staked out in the middle of the river, several barges tied together. So we could party.
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Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values.
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