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So the city [Pittsburgh] was faced with that question of "What to do now?" because it can't turn back the clock and be what it once was. So thematically, it seemed like the perfect location for the movie. And then, it's a matter of how we get that feeling into the picture and make it a part of [Michael] Chabon's story.

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Cities, Perfect, Feelings

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I had written the script a few years earlier for Paramount, then later got hired with Sam [Fuller] to write an entirely new script that he was going to direct. And that was one of the great thrills of my professional life.

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Writing, Years, Scripts

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I had the great fortune to actually become friends with Sam [Fuller] and ultimately collaborate with him on White Dog, which we wrote together.

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Dog, White, Together

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Samuel Fuller pictures were both written and shot in such an unusual way that his voice came through loud and clear, and it made a big impression on me.

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Voice, Way, Unusual

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Initially, it connected with me when I was a kid, seeing a lot of movies while growing up in Los Angeles. And Sam's [Fuller] pictures are an expression of such a distinct voice that he was one of those filmmakers who made me aware that there was, in fact, a real presence behind the camera that was telling the story, as opposed to actors just presenting it.

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Growing Up, Real, Kids

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I also got to know Roger Corman a bit while we were on location in Mendocino. And then, subsequently, a woman who also worked on The Dunwich Horror named Tamara Asseyev and I teamed up and co-produced a picture that I wrote and directed, called Sweet Kill, that Roger Corman's then-new company distributed.

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Sweet, Roger, Location

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Roger [Corman] didn't actually hire me, though. I was hired by AIP [American International Pictures], the studio that made the picture, which was Sam Arkoff and Jim Nicholson. It was a great learning experience for me, because not only did I work on the script, but they hired me back to go on location when they were making the movie, to write new scenes and so forth.

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Writing, Scripts, Goes On

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My very first professional writing credit was on a movie called The Dunwich Horror, and Roger Corman was the executive producer.

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Writing, Credit, Roger

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I stopped doing that [photojournalism] and wrote some screenplays on speculation, because even though I wanted to direct, to direct you need a lot of money. Even for a cheap movie, you need film stock and equipment and actors.

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Needs, Actors, Film

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It was a unique experience in several ways, because I don't think Sam [Fuller] had ever collaborated with another writer over his whole career.

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Unique, Thinking, Careers

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We're not used to seeing movies, especially with physical action, when it isn't the man who comes in to save the day.

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Men, Action, He Man

"Movies : Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Streep : Meryl Streep Takes to the White Water. Was Her Action Debut Smooth Sailing? How 'the River Wild' Star and Director Curtis Hanson Took the Plunge". Interview with Laurie Werner, articles.latimes.com. September 25, 1994.

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That love of movies is very much alive in me.

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Alive

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Pittsburgh has this rich industrial past, when it was the heart of the U.S. steel industry, and it burned out as the industry burned out and moved elsewhere.

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Heart, Past, Steel

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In terms of talking with my collaborators as they came onboard - Jeannine Oppewall, our production designer, Dante Spinotti, our cinematographer, and so forth - I said to them, "Let's pretend that this is a place like Honolulu. Let's ignore the fact that all these other movies have been made here for decades and try to come at it with a fresh eye, as if it were an exotic city that people aren't that familiar with. And let's present our own view of it, create a world that's unique to this movie [L.A Confidential].

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Eye, Unique, Views

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I had always wanted to tell a story that was set in Los Angeles in the '50s, because that's where I grew up, and it was the city of my childhood memories.

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Memories, Cities, Childhood

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As ridiculous as it is for anybody who knows how movies are made, there were people who actually wrote in reviews that this picture [Bad Influence] had been put out to capitalize on the scandal. Which, of course, would have been impossible.

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People, Scandal, Ridiculous

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Rob Lowe, who I thought was really good in the movie [ Bad Influence], had his performance overshadowed by this sort of tabloid approach to him and the movie.

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Tabloids, Influence, Lowes

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On the surface, Wonder Boys seemed like such a departure from L.A. Confidential - it's funny, it's contemporary, and so on - and yet at a certain point, I had a feeling that reminded me how I felt when I was shooting L.A. Confidential. I analyzed it for a while, and thought about how emotionally involved I was with the characters. Then I realized that in both movies, there are three main male characters and one female, and all of them are struggling to figure out what they're doing with their lives, independent of each other.

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Struggle, Character, Independent

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I was a journalist and wrote about filmmakers, but I didn't review movies per se.

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Reviews, Filmmaker, Journalist

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In L.A. Confidential, it was great to surprise the audience with Guy Pearce and Russell Crowe - two Australian actors that they didn't know at all - and let people discover them through the course of the film.

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Two, People, Guy

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I didn't look at it as a transition so much, because I never intended to have a career as a journalist, writing about people who make movies.

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Writing, Careers, People

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Born: March 24, 1945
Died: September 20, 2016
Occupation: Film director
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