Allan Arkush

Bad movies don't start out as bad movies. They start out as everyone's working really hard, and what happens is sometimes they *go* bad.

[about what's required for low-budget filmmaking] In order to do a movie for a really defined budget, a small budget, you can't wing it. You've got to come in with a real plan, 'cause you have so little time, so few hours, and your resources are so limited, that you really have to know exactly what you're doing. Show less «

[about making Deathsport (1978)] When Roger Corman calls you up and says, "I want you to do something about those mutants", it boggles the mind. Show less «

[on The Hot Box (1972)] Roger Corman will just say exploitation pictures don't need plots. They need sensational things like girls shooting Filipinos out of trees. That works. Show less «