A lot of people thought my work was very tedious, and it can be if you look at it from that point of view, but I never looked upon it as tedious.
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I always worked with the writer, and the producer, and sometimes the director wouldn't come in until the picture was ready to go. It's not a director's picture as you imagine in the European sense of the word. It has to be laid out -- otherwise we couldn't make them for the price we did. I was responsible for laying out the special effects and making the picture practical.
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