You can imagine what it was like for me to actually be sitting in a room with matching typewriters, working under the tutelage of this guy I so admired, both as a filmmaker and as a man.

It was a unique experience in several ways, because I don't think Sam [Fuller] had ever collaborated with another writer over his whole career.

I had a checkered early career, for sure, with a lot of very unhappy experiences where pictures got taken away, re-cut, re-titled... all the nightmares one hears about.

That love of movies is very much alive in me.

Most scripts are so linear and simplistic in their plotline.

My very first professional writing credit was on a movie called The Dunwich Horror, and Roger Corman was the executive producer.

Hollywood, of course, is the city of illusion.