Okay, if you like low-budget B movies about outdoor biker gangs, giant sea serpents, man-eating plants, women in prison,

teenage cavemen, loads of violence, and hot girls in skimpy clothing or no clothing at all.

And if you don't like that, I don't want to know you.

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome genuine Hollywood legend,

the one, the only Roger Corman.

Well, that was a pretty subtle introduction. I hope I can keep up with that level of intellectualism.

They're all about intellectualism, Roger.

Now, you have introduced some of the biggest names and you know if someone doesn't know who you are

and I'd be ashamed that they didn't you have introduced to show business, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese,

Ron Howard, Peter Bogdanovich, Jonathan Demi, Joe Dante, James Cameron, Rabbit Town,

Robert Jack Nicholson, Peter Fonder, Bruce Stern,

Dennis Hoppet, Talya Shire, Sandra Bullock, and Robert DeNiro.

One or two others, but I think we'll settle for those for the moment.

Now how did you first get into a movie making?

How did you first get into a movie making? Well it started when I was an engineering student at

Stanford and I was writing for the Stanford Daily and I found out the critics for the daily got free passes to all the theaters in

Palo Alto so I thought I like to see pictures for not paying and so I

wrote a couple sample reviews they took me on as a critic

and then i started to really

examine and analyze the films in order to write the reviews and I essentially became

hooked I thought this is much more fascinating than I realize just watching

films casually and I decided to move from engineering to

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