The ‘Altered States’ feud between Ken Russell and Paddy Chayefsky
A promised “benign influence”.
“I wanted the audience to be asking, ‘Are these people crazy?'”
“I had never seen anything like that.”
“There have been so many films that stylistically have derived.”
“It literally stopped me in my tracks.”
“I never looked at the night sky the same way again.”
Just as essential as ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’.