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Terry Southern
May 1, 1924 - October 29, 1995
Nationality: American
Category: Writer
Subcategory: American Writer

Blue Movie was based on an idea that Stanley Kubrick had. Somebody came by one day with some porn footage.

   

It's frustrating not to have more control over your material.

   

In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.

   

It was a good experience working with Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda.

   

Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States.

   

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

   

The Loved One has been the most underrated film I've worked on.

   

The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.

   

I like to work at night.

   

Writing on a contract for a major studio you get the very best.

   

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

   

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.

   

When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian.

   

I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers.

   

An angel has no memory.

   

You can't do the end of the world in a conventionally dramatic way or Boy Meets Girl way.

   

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

   

Sometimes we would be staked out in the middle of the river, several barges tied together. So we could party.

   

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

   

In the case of The Loved One, I was hired to collaborate on an updated version of the book.

   

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