Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel Page #2

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all of these

kind of violent exploitation movies

that he had made.

I thought he'd be more like

Lee j. Cobb, let's say,

or somebody a little--

where they're smoking a cigar

and pounding

on the desk and--

"you kids get in there

and do that work," and, you know--

and actually

he's very eloquent,

elegant and precise,

cool-headed,

from what I saw,

and very, very different

from the type of person

you'd think would be behind

these pictures like "teenage cave man."

Corman:

The difference between

the image you present

to the world

and what is going on inside,

in your unconscious mind,

is significant.

I've been told

that my image is

I'm just sort of an ordinary

straight guy.

Clearly my unconscious mind

is some sort of

a boiling inferno there.

Like most kids,

i was interested in films

essentially all my life.

I graduated from Stanford university

in California in engineering.

I worked four days

as an engineer and quit.

The only job I could get in films

was a messenger

at 20th century fox.

And I worked my way up from that

to become a story analyst.

I read scripts,

commented on them,

and handed in a synopsis

of the script or the novel

or whatever had been proposed

with my opinion.

As the youngest reader,

i was given

frankly the most hopeless

scripts to cover.

And the story editor said,

"Roger, you have never

recommended one script."

And I said, "you've never given me

a script that's worth recommending."

So they sent me a script

which was the first thing

I'd ever read at fox

that I thought was really

any good at all.

And I made a number

of notes on it.

The picture became "the gunfighter"

starring Gregory peck.

And the story editor

got a bonus for my notes.

And I got no recognition

for the fact

that a number of my ideas

were used in the script.

This became a big hit for fox.

You would have thought he would have

had some acknowledgement.

This caused him to leave fox

and become what he is today.

After "the gunfighter,"

he corralled some money

from our parents

and some of his money

and a few friends',

got an enormous number

of deferments

and made his first film--

"monster from the ocean floor."

And that was basically

the beginnings of Roger corman.

I was the producer,

the assistant director and everything.

I would drive the truck

to the location

and unload everything I could

by myself.

And I would save about an hour

on the crew salary

every morning.

The second picture I made

was a picture called

"the fast and the furious."

It was about road racing and of course

had very, very little money.

Jonathan haze:
Roger went to

some sports car dealerships

and borrowed sports cars.

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