Terry Southern Quotes

• Writing on a contract for a major studio you get the very best.

  Terry Southern

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing

• 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.

  Terry Southern

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  Tags in Believe, Wrote

• David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with David and her to read stories for the anthology.

  Terry Southern

  Topics in Job, Work

• 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.

  Terry Southern

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  Tags in Music, Share, Film

• I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers.

  Terry Southern

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  Tags in Met

• When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian.

  Terry Southern

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  Tags in Control, Damage

• When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor.

  Terry Southern

  Topics in Decision

  Tags in Movie

• For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of.

  Terry Southern

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  Tags in Director

• Grossing Out dealt with the western nations selling arms to the Third World and exploiting these countries.

  Terry Southern

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• I met Claxton on the set of The Cincinnati Kid.

  Terry Southern

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• In the case of The Loved One, I was hired to collaborate on an updated version of the book.

  Terry Southern

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  Tags in Loved

• After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector.

  Terry Southern

  Topics in Work

• It was a good experience working with Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda.

  Terry Southern

  Topics in Experience

• The Loved One has been the most underrated film I’ve worked on..

  Terry Southern

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  Tags in Film

• Sometimes we would be staked out in the middle of the river, several barges tied together. So we could party.

  Terry Southern

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  Tags in Party

• You can’t do the end of the world in a conventionally dramatic way or Boy Meets Girl way.

  Terry Southern

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  Tags in World

• The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock – shock is a worn-out word – but astonish.

  Terry Southern

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  Tags in Important, Capacity

• I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal.

  Terry Southern

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• An angel has no memory.

  Terry Southern

  Topics in Memory

• Peter Beard is one of those people I’ve known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values.

  Terry Southern

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  Tags in People, Time

Terry Southern (22)

Birth:	1st May, 1924
Death:	29th October, 1995
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Essayist, Lecturer, Screenwriter

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