Jack MacGowran

“Both 'Cul-de-Sac' and 'Dance Of The Vampires' suffered from awkward translations of the original French scripts. After we had struggled on for a while, Roman said, 'Throw away the script and say what you want to say.' In my opening scene in 'Cul-de-Sac', where I am marooned in the flooded car, I originally had a speech half-a-page long - completely unnecessary. I cut it completely and spoke one line only, off my own bat.”