Why are people finally realizing it’s a legit part of film history?
All film is interesting, and it’s all important, and it’s all labors of love. Anybody who makes a film, it’s like having a kid. The other thing too, it’s beginning points for many of the important people in the industry. Laszlo Kovacs is the cinematographer for “The Defilers” and “The Notorious Daughters of Fanny Hill.” Later on he was the cinematographer for “E.T.” A lot of film students right out of film school, first opportunity they had was to make an exploitation or sexploitation movie. What do you love about this stuff? They’re like little pop-culture time capsules. These movies were made on the lowest budgets in the shortest periods of time, and if something culturally was happening within our culture at that moment—if that week Hula Hoops became popular, and that guy was making a movie and it takes five days to make that movie, where a normal movie could take a year, he’d incorporate Hula Hoops in that film. And I love cardboard films. I love bad acting. I love films with conti
