After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector.

When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor.

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.

David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with David and her to read stories for the anthology.

Grossing Out dealt with the western nations selling arms to the Third World and exploiting these countries.

Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values.

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.