The films I liked were European films - Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, François Truffaut.

The influences in my life were all kind of politically, socially implanted. And then there was Watergate.

Thousands of people come to LA every year, and some of them just disappear. Somebody gets them. In the States around 100,000 people vanish each year. I don't know what that means. Maybe there's something that just pulls 'em out.

I had an experience in a restaurant one time where there was a large trolley with beef being carved up, and I just transposed different images onto it. Like, what if there was a nice little cow there with a bowtie and a knife carving up humans. I was a vegetarian for a couple of years after that.

No matter where you're going it's the wrong place

The films I liked were European films - Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, François Truffaut.

The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In the meantime I went to London to do Lifeforce.