Joe Dante, Allan Arkush, and Allan Holzman talk about working for Roger Corman in 1981

Early in their careers, Joe Dante, Allan Arkush, and Allan Holzman talk about working for Roger Corman on films like Piranha and Rock and Roll High School.

Dante: “If you really care, and you’re really willing to kill yourself and work real hard, you can get somewhere…. If you give Roger the things that he wants, which are exploitable elements that he knows he can sell–” Arkush: “You have to do the genre film, though. When he says the genre that you’re in, you really gotta do that part of it really well. So if it’s a car chase movie, you gotta do the car chases really well. And if it’s a horror picture you gotta give him all the horror stuff. What you do in between then relies on yourself and whatever you come up with.”

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