ROGER CORMAN: Joe Dante, went on to become a very well-known successful director started cutting trailers for us.He was cutting one trailer and I looked at it, Joe, this is a fairly drull trailer — dull trailer. What can you do to jazz it up? He said come back this afternoon. I went back that afternoon and there was the same dull trailer in the middle was an exploding helicopter. It made the trailer.
CONAN: Let me ask you a question, was there an exploding helicopter in the film?
ROGER CORMAN: There’s no law that says everything in the trailer has to be –
(Laughter)
(Applause)
Seriously, this man is America’s greatest living cinematic treasure.
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