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" I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers. "
Terry Southern
Same
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Stones
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" Writing on a contract for a major studio you get the very best. "
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" It was a good experience working with Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda. "
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" Grossing Out dealt with the western nations selling arms to the Third World and exploiting these countries. "
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" I met Claxton on the set of The Cincinnati Kid. "
Terry Southern
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" It's often the case with directors that they don't like to share credit, which is the case of Stanley. He would prefer just A Film By Stanley Kubrick including music and everything. "
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" When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian. "
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" Sometimes we would be staked out in the middle of the river, several barges tied together. So we could party. "
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" The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish. "
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" When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor. "
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" Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values. "
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" In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer. "
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Writer
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" An angel has no memory. "
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No Memory
Memory
Angel
" 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. "
Terry Southern
Loving
Green
First
" After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector. "
Terry Southern
Work
Adaptation
Collector
" For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of. "
Terry Southern
Unheard
Director
Producer
" You can't do the end of the world in a conventionally dramatic way or Boy Meets Girl way. "
Terry Southern
Boy
World
Way
" In the case of The Loved One, I was hired to collaborate on an updated version of the book. "
Terry Southern
Case
Updated
Loved
" The Loved One has been the most underrated film I've worked on. "
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Most
Loved
Film
" It's frustrating not to have more control over your material. "
Terry Southern
Control
More
Material
" 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. "
Terry Southern
Me
Work
Son
" I like to work at night. "
Terry Southern
Work
Like
Night