- [When location director Paul Pav was scouting porno shops for the film,"Hardcore," he was stonewalled.] That was the worst experience of my life. They're all scared to talk to you. If you say to a manager that you want to film in his porn shop, he says, 'Get out!' Then you have to go and find the owner of the shop. That's the most difficult thing. They're often lawyers and doctors. I'd have to leave my name, then someone would call me back. Often I wound up talking to people behind closed doors.
- [on being snowed in with director Paul Schrader] There was nothing to do but sit in the bar and the restaurant. I really got to know Paul then; I loved working with him - he's a strange, wonderful man.
- [on "Poltergeist"] It's a fourteen hour day. On "Poltergeist" we worked ten consecutive nights in the Simi Valley, north of Los Angeles, from 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. Then I'd go back to the office to plan for the next day, then sleep for two or three hours. But I like the tension. I like being a location manager. You see places, meet people that you'll never see again. When you're shooting, you have no private life. But it's worth the trade-off. This job keeps you on your toes. If it was easy, it would be boring.
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