Quotes About Terry Southern

If there were a Mount Rushmore of American humor, Terry Southern would be the mountain they'd carve it from

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

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

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.

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

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

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