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 film school. I'm like the person who should have never made this film. But I just decided to put one foot in front of the other. I was writing film articles for magazines at the time. I convinced an editor from one of the magazines that I was working for to give me a shot to do a piece on Roger. This was an excuse to go meet him.
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… - Alex Stapleton
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…
- Alex Stapleton
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… - Alex Stapleton
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…
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… - Alex Stapleton
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…
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… - Alex Stapleton
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…
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… - Alex Stapleton
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…
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… - Alex Stapleton
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…
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. - Alex Stapleton
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.
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… - Alex Stapleton
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…
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… - Alex Stapleton
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…
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