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.
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…
- 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… - 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…
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…
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…
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…
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… - Alex Stapleton
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…
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… - Alex Stapleton
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…
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…
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