Actually, the camera was never overhead at any time. It was always a side view of me. Subsequently, after the picture was released, I saw some scenes from above and my clothes being pulled-and I think that was added later.

Juan Tripp was a friend. Good name for an airline man, huh? Juan Tripp after another?

The producers who wanted me to do it liked me and trusted me, and more than one scene was only one take, because I'd plan ahead what I thought would be appropriate for that scene-so one take was enough.

I went to Washington to ask for a little residual payment for the people who had written films in the early, early days, people who never got any residuals on tapes or anything at all.

Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.

There were shots of Kong pulling at my clothes, but only in horizontal and never from above. Never from above.

When the picture was finished, they took me into the sound room and then I screamed more for about five minutes just steady screaming, and then they'd cut that in and add it.