Dennis Cooper interviewed at 3:AM Magazine:
It’s a bit of a long story. In brief, I had always wanted to make a porn film. I thought it was a genre that had never been treated with much artfulness or experimentation. I mentioned this interest of mine online, and someone in the porn industry contacted me to say he could get a porn film by me financed and made. I asked him if there were any restrictions or rules, and he said I could write any kind of script I wanted. So I wrote a quite complicated, strange porn script, very explicit but more about eroticism and how that works than actually being erotic. The script turned out to be way too experimental to get financed. So that project died. Years later, a German film producer, Jurgen Bruening, heard about the script, asked to read it, and said he might be interested in producing it. I was collaborating with Zac Farley on other projects by then. I asked if he was interested in working with me, and he agreed. We rewrote the script, taking out most of the actual hardcore porn, and submitted it. Jurgen Bruening liked the script and produced the film for very ittle money, $40,000. So we made Like Cattle Towards Glow. Neither Zac nor I had ever made a film before, but we saw it as a kind of strange, shot-in-the-dark experiment to see what would happen, and it worked out strangely well.
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