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I Didn't Save My Money For A Lawyer. I Was A Very Young Man, And Saved My Money For Having A Good Time.

I Was Being Brought Up On Peasant Stories; My Mother Came From Europe And She'd Been A Peasant And That Was The Area Where The Frankensteins And The Draculas Came From And It Was Entertainment For The People. Nobody Had Tv, And That Was The Way Peasants Would Entertain Themselves, By Telling These Stories.

Everybody Was Wary. This Was A Time When Communists Marched Through The Streets, Waving Flags And Shouting. The Unions Did The Same Thing So You Began To Associate Them.

A Character To Me Can't Be Contrived. I Don't Like To Contrive Characters. They Have To Have An Element Of Truth.

Of Course, Mothers Were Very Conventional, Everything Was Very Conventional. You Had To Have Approval.