[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.

[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.

[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.

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.