On this week's episode of Wild Card, actor Chris Pine tells us it's okay not to be perfect.

My film got absolutely decimated when it premiered, which brings up for me one of my primary triggers or whatever is like not being like. I'm Rachel Martin,

Chris Pine on How to Find Joy in Imperfection. That's on NPR's new podcast, Wild Card,

the game where cards control the conversation.

This is Fresh Air.

I'm David Bienkule.

Roger Corman, the influential film director and producer, died last week.

He was 98 years old.

Today, we'll listen back to an interview with him,

and with several people whose careers he fostered and encouraged.

We'll also feature an appreciation from critic at large John Powers.

Roger Corman's legacy includes some delightfully enjoyable low-budget movies, but he's best

known for launching the careers of a long list of soon-to-be-famous writers,

and actors. Richard Matheson and Robert Towne wrote screenplays for early

Corman films. Directors who began under his wing included Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Jonathan Demi, and

Francis Ford Coppola. And his movies, low-budget quickies embracing such genres as horror, monster movies, gangster films,

Westerns, Sci-Fi, and Biker and Prison Films,

showcased a wide range of actors from old pros like Vincent Price and Peter Lorry to a bunch of then

unknowns like Robert DeNiro and Jack Nicholson.

In 1960, Korman directed The Little Shop of Horrors, which featured a young Nicholson

as a masochistic dental patient.

You know, most people don't like to go to the dentist, but I rather enjoy it myself,

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