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After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector.
The Loved One has been the most underrated film I've worked on.
The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.
I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal.
For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of.
I like to work at night.
There is no power on earth that can loosen a man's grip on his own throat
When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian.
I'm not interested in attacking, I'm interested in astonishing.
I don't know why, but I always feel a kind of necessity to write things that are beyond acceptance, that are too offensive or something. For people to read them and say, Ha-ha-ha, very funny. No, we can't print that.
Grossing Out dealt with the western nations selling arms to the Third World and exploiting these countries.
When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor.
I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers.
An absolutely devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life: the abuses of power, hero worship, aimless violence, materialistic obsession, intolerance, and every form of hypocrisy.
You can't do the end of the world in a conventionally dramatic way or Boy Meets Girl way.
In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.
I met Claxton on the set of The Cincinnati Kid.