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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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