The media in America has become so cowed and compromised.

We just said, 'Okay, you're in the movie. Bring what you would bring for a three-day weekend and I hope you like the way you look in it because once you're on camera, that's your wardrobe.' But it worked; it worked and we were very surprised.

The media in America has become so cowed and compromised.

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 movie acting is that if you're playing a character who changes within the movie, you've got to do that, but you've got to do it out of sequence, because we never have gotten to shoot in sequence, and that's really, really tough.

If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day.

When I was really young I didn't know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories.