- After working with Jack Nicholson in The Terror (1963), he considered him to be a terrible actor, but when he saw him in The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), he rethought his opinion - and figured that Nicholson had just been miscast in various Roger Corman films.
- His UCLA student film The Host (2000) was a huge influence on the last third of Francis Ford Coppola's film Apocalypse Now (1979).
- Interviewed in the book "Wild Beyond Belief: Interviews with Exploitation Filmmakers of the 1960s and 1970s" by Brian Albright (McFarland & Co.).
- In 1998, he was set to direct a film project named "Julie McGriff's Difficult World of Sex". Sheryl Lee was set to star in the film, which was to have been an offbeat comedy.
- Attended Hollywood High School.
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