Terry Southern Quotes
"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."
- Terry Southern
(Related: Music, Credit, Film)
"Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values."
- Terry Southern
(Related: Time, People, Values)
"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
(Related: Attention, First, states, United)
"Sometimes we would be staked out in the middle of the river, several barges tied together. So we could party."
- Terry Southern
(Related: Party)
"The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish."
- Terry Southern
(Related: Word, Writing)
"The Loved One has been the most underrated film I've worked on."
- Terry Southern
(Related: Film)
"When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian."
- Terry Southern
(Related: Time, Control, Christian, Magic)
"It's frustrating not to have more control over your material."
- Terry Southern
(Related: Control)
"Writing on a contract for a major studio you get the very best."
- Terry Southern
(Related: Writing)
"In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer."
- Terry Southern
(Related: Control, Difficulty, Film, Sense, Writer)
"When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor."
- Terry Southern
(Related: Thought, Comedy)
"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
(Related: Work, Son, American)
"After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector."
- Terry Southern
(Related: Work)
"It was a good experience working with Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda."
- Terry Southern
(Related: Experience)
"Blue Movie was based on an idea that Stanley Kubrick had. Somebody came by one day with some porn footage."
- Terry Southern
(Related: Idea, Day)
"In the case of The Loved One, I was hired to collaborate on an updated version of the book."
- Terry Southern
"For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of."
- Terry Southern
(Related: Writing)
"Grossing Out dealt with the western nations selling arms to the Third World and exploiting these countries."
- Terry Southern
(Related: Selling, Countries, Nations, World)
"I like to work at night."
- Terry Southern
(Related: Work, Night)
"I met Claxton on the set of The Cincinnati Kid."
- Terry Southern
"I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers."
- Terry Southern
(Related: Time)
"I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal."
- Terry Southern
(Related: Alienation, Despair)
"An angel has no memory."
- Terry Southern
(Related: Memory)