Terry Southern

It's frustrating not to have more control over your material.

— Terry Southern

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

— Terry Southern

There is no power on earth that can loosen a man's grip on his own throat

— Terry Southern

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

— Terry Southern

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

— Terry Southern

I'm not interested in attacking, I'm interested in astonishing.

— Terry Southern

I met Claxton on the set of The Cincinnati Kid.

— Terry Southern

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

— Terry Southern

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

— Terry Southern

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

— Terry Southern

Blue Movie was based on an idea that Stanley Kubrick had. Somebody came by one day with some porn footage.

— Terry Southern

David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with…

— Terry Southern

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

— Terry Southern

I don't know why, but I always feel a kind of necessity to write things that are beyond acceptance, that are too…

— Terry Southern

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

— Terry Southern

An angel has no memory.

— Terry Southern

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

— Terry Southern

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

— Terry Southern

Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels,…

— Terry Southern

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

— Terry Southern

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

— Terry Southern

I learned not to care ... and to write for an imaginary reader whose tastes were similar to my own.

— Terry Southern

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

— Terry Southern

I like to work at night.

— Terry Southern

In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.

— Terry Southern