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And I had known Peter O'Toole before in London. And I'd liked him very much. And the thought of being in a picture with him was very challenging to me. And he was playing the starring role.

The thing that's strange about Frank Vincent is that actors of his quality are usually big stars.

The person I've always wanted to interview but never met was Richard Burton.

The first time I met James Franco, he was dressed like James Dean. He was James Dean, literally, filming a biopic.

I've known Johnny Depp since I was 19.

I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre.

The first people I ever saw were probably Little Richard and Gene Vincent.

Growing up in Texas and Oklahoma, Ben Johnson was more famous than John Wayne to some of us. I knew him. I worked with him on a low budget film years ago, and we'd sit around at night while waiting for a shot.