Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel Page #3

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And we took the windshields off them

and actually raced them.

And then we'd clean them up

and take them back.

Roger was just so inane

at the time

and was trying

to do it himself

and was starting

to run out of money.

If you don't understand money

in the movie business,

it's like an artist

who doesn't understand paint.

Roger told me,

"well, I understand paint.

If I got to thin her up with turpentine

or there's no picture,

why, she gets thinned up a little.

That's all there is to it."

I could see the problem

for the independent.

You raised the money.

You made the picture.

And then you had to wait

for the picture to earn its money back

before you could make

another picture.

But Sam arkoff

and Jim Nicholson

were starting a new company--

American international.

And they made me an offer

for "the fast and the furious"

to start their company with.

I said, "i want

a three-picture deal

in which I'm guaranteed

my money back.

As soon as I finish one film,

I go to the next one

using the guarantee."

And that essentially

started me

on a regular basis

of making films

and started

American international.

Don't call me "squaw."

You're a dirty apache squaw.

I'm gonna kill you.

Your people did that--

raiding, thieving, killing.

Haze:
I was very famous

for fighting with the girls.

This was "apache woman."

Joan Taylor and I did

a knife fight in the street.

And this is dick Miller

in the background

where he belonged.

A friend of mine,

Jonathan haze, said,

"well, maybe I'll introduce you

to Roger corman and he can help you."

We went down there.

He said, "what do you do?"

I said, "I'm a writer."

He said, "we don't need

any writers right now."

He says, "i need actors."

I said, "I'm an actor."

He says, "you want to play

an Indian for me?"

At the end I got killed.

Roger said, "how would you like

to play a cowboy for me?"

I said, "oh, are we going

to another picture?"

He says,

"no, no, this picture."

I said, "oh, god. Okay."

I wound up killing myself

in the last scene.

I don't know

what the budgets were,

but they were really low.

We shot them in seven days,

so that gives you an idea.

And that's everything,

including special effects

or anything else, you know.

Some weren't all that great, and Roger'd

be the first guy to tell you that.

I never had the opportunity

to go to film school.

My student work

was being shown on the screen.

And some of it wasn't quite as good

as it might have been,

but I was learning

all the time.

Beat it, I said.

You're on a battlefield.

I know that better than you do,

sergeant. How well are you doing?

Half my men are dead.

Nothing can stop that thing.

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