About Terry Southern:
Terry Southern was an American author, essayist, screenwriter, and university lecturer, noted for his distinctive satirical style. Part of the Paris postwar literary movement in the 1950s and a companion to Beat writers in Greenwich Village, Southern was also at the center of Swinging London in the 1960s and helped to change the style and substance of American films in the 1970s. In the 1980s he wrote for Saturday Night Live and lectured on screenwriting at several universities in New York.
You can't do the end of the world in a conventionally dramatic way or Boy Meets Girl way.
Terry SouthernFor a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of.
Terry SouthernIn the case of The Loved One, I was hired to collaborate on an updated version of the book.
Terry SouthernIn that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.
Terry Southern