I shot a lot of stuff that no one will ever see. That was my student work. What also happened was there was a big jump in technology..
There hadn't been one done since the late 70s. I was living in Brooklyn, had no connection to Roger Corman, to no one in this movie. I didn't go to f….
There's a rumbling with young artists and young filmmakers that are dying to get different points of view, different stories, out there. It's all cha….
We need to take a step back and realize that what happened in the 1950s, when he started his career, is exactly where we are today. Everything goes i….
There's all of the DVD extra material and all these other pieces of information that don't fit into a 90-minute experience, but it's still content an….
I think being really open to this new world of online and what it means to be online. Also, understanding that maybe it's time to let go of the 90-mi….
I feel like I'm a graduate of the Roger Corman School of Filmmaking. I went and visited Roger on the set of Dinoshark and that's in the movie. That's….
Because I didn't go to film school, I had a collection of books that were inspiring or taught me how to make movies, shorts with my friends back in B….
Films are a very tangible thing. It's making something with your hands. I think all of these guys - Roger and the whole cast of this movie - what the….
If you take a movie like Easy Rider which everyone counts as the beginning of New Hollywood, that is a big movement. And then, when you really dissec….
Peter Fonda was just this clean, cookie-cutter kind of a guy. Roger Corman turned him into the motorcycle man with The Wild Angels. Jack Nicholson, a….
I'm a big genre fan. I'm a big science fiction nerd and horror film nerd. I'm obsessed with Pam Grier. I wanted to be her for all of my teenage years..
First of all, on a cinematic [level], the film answer to that is that Roger Corman was creatively responsible for a lot of cinema history..
Francis Ford Coppola didn't come out of the womb with The Godfather. He had a whole build up until he got to that point. I think it's okay to fail. T….