Terry Southern
Terry Southern
Terry Southernwas an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and university lecturer, noted for his distinctive satirical style. Part of the Paris postwar literary movement in the 1950s and a companion to Beat writers in Greenwich Village, Southern was also at the center of Swinging London in the 1960s and helped to change the style and substance of American films in the 1970s. In the 1980s he wrote for Saturday Night Live and lectured on screenwriting at several universities in New York...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth1 May 1924
CityAlvarado, TX
CountryUnited States of America
Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values.
After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector.
For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of.
An absolutely devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life: the abuses of power, hero worship, aimless violence, materialistic obsession, intolerance, and every form of hypocrisy.
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.
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.
In the case of The Loved One, I was hired to collaborate on an updated version of the book.
I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers.
I met Claxton on the set of The Cincinnati Kid.
Sometimes we would be staked out in the middle of the river, several barges tied together. So we could party.
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.
I don't know why, but I always feel a kind of necessity to write things that are beyond acceptance, that are too offensive or something. For people to read them and say, Ha-ha-ha, very funny. No, we can't print that.
I'm not interested in attacking, I'm interested in astonishing.