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Quote: "I was actually in the ad business, a copywriter and concept guy. I had written a couple of screenplays, and ended up being offered a couple of Afterschool Special-type programs for CBS. And this was more exciting than advertising, so I quit. And one of those specials I wrote was called - goodness gracious, stay with me here - The Inside-Out Clown, about a fat kid who went to clown school and learned that life isn�t about clowning, clowning is about life. And I don�t know why he read the script, but Joe Zito - who is also, shall we say, an overweight person - called me up and said, �I love the kids you draw. I want you to write a horror film for me.�
Joe was right on the money there. When I started writing, he said to me, �Don�t try to think of any new ways to kill kids, �cause people have seen everything. Just make real kids like your Afterschool Special kids, and whatever we do to them will be horrific.� I had liked the first two Friday films, because they had made kids that, for the most part, you understood and you cared about. Part 3 was a trick movie - they killed all these kids that were better off dead anyway. So we strove to make lovable, real-world teens - even if Jason never showed up, it was still American Graffiti, you know? Because when you kill kids like that, people really get freaked out." - pg. 101, Crystal Lake Memories
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