Corman Quotes

I went from driving a truck to becoming a movie director, with a little time working with Roger Corman in between. When I wrote The Terminator, I sold the rights at that time - that was my shot to get the film made. So I`ve never owned the rights in the time that the franchise has been developed. I was fortunate enough to get a chance to direct the second film and do so on my own creative terms, which was good. But that was in 1991 and I`ve felt like it was time to move on. The primary reason for making a third one was financial, and that didn`t strike me as organic enough a reason to be making a film.

I wouldn`t trade my film school - which is basically Roger Corman - for anything. That`s how I got my experience in front of the camera.

Yeah, I have a few dollars, but when you`re getting up to the point where the average movie costs $80 million, anything under $20 million is pretty cheap. Anything under $10 million is almost impossible. And anything under $5 million is Roger Corman.

If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it`s going to get made. You saw it almost the next day.