The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In the meantime I went to London to do Lifeforce.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The Dead was cool, It's a great horror story. I went to the casting director of this movie and talked to him, then they called my agent and had me come in and read for it and they wanted to use me.
I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations before this, but they were mostly original stories where I had complete freedom to evolve in the direction I wanted.
I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell.
I do a film because I like the story and I want to give life to a character - I don't necessarily have to agree with the director.
I had a few stories and longer pieces published, but my first proper novel came in 2003, called 'Dead I Well May Be.'
As an actor, whatever I get the opportunity to do, if it has a good story then I'm in. I thought 'Dead End' had a great story; 'Nightmare on Elm Street,' of course, was probably the first real horror film I was in.
I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.
We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it.
I wasted time writing films. I don't look back on those years as lost, but it wasn't what I should have been doing.
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