An angel has no memory.
The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.
After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector.
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.
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.
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.
In the case of The Loved One, I was hired to collaborate on an updated version of the book.
The Loved One has been the most underrated film I've worked on.
It was a good experience working with Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda.
Grossing Out dealt with the western nations selling arms to the Third World and exploiting these countries.
I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal.