Film Courage: Don why do you say that you never plan to retire?
Donald F. Glut, Writer, Film Director, and Screenwriter: I will retire if I get a flat on the freeway and I have to call the AAA and they come, they retire for me because I don’t know how to do that. But I want to die working. I want to die between the words action and cut or falling over my computer keyboard or something like that because I just love to work so much, I really do. I have so many friends who are much younger than me and much longer ago than now they’ve just thrown in the towel, they’re just resting on their past laurels. All they talk about is something they did 40 years ago and I don’t want people to think I’m a has-been. In some ways I’m doing more now than I did when I was in my 20’s. But a lot of people who did the same types of things I’ve done, they don’t do it anymore, they have no interest, they’re taking day jobs, they work in stores and things like that and I want to keep doing what I’m doing. I’m going to keep making movies and keep writing. I’m writing mostly comic books again now which is the way I started out years ago and from a magazine called Shudder and another magazine called Vampiress Carmilla in their horror stories and then most of the associate editor in those two magazines and I’m having a ball and they’re better than any of the stories I wrote 30 years ago 40 years ago so I’ve improved I’d like to think. I just can’t imagine spending the rest of my life watching flowers grow in the garden or watching television shows, that’s just the way I am.
Film Courage: Do you think people get tired or do you think they give up on their own ability?
Don: In the case of the arts and I use that in a broad sense (making movies, writing stories, drawing pictures, acting, playing music, whatever) there is such a thing as age bias in these businesses. Some of these places when you’re…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
BIO:
Donald F. Glut has been active in both the entertainment and publishing industries since 1966. Don has had a long and varied career. He has been a professional musician, actor, film director, executive producer, photographer, magazine editor, proofreader and (very briefly, for an advertising agency) copywriter, but is mostly known for his long career as a freelance writer. He has written and directed feature-length motion pictures, documentaries and music videos, authored approximately 80 fiction and non-fiction published books, myriad TV scripts (live action and animation shows, network and syndicated), comic-book scripts, short stories, magazine articles, even music and theatre. He has been involved with numerous popular franchises such as Star Wars, The Monkees, Tarzan, Spider-Man, Transformers, G.I. Joe, Vampirella, Masters of the Universe, The Flintstones, Jonny Quest and many others, and created original comic-book characters for Gold Key, Marvel and DC. Arguably Don is best known for his novelization of the second “Star Wars” movie The Empire Strikes Back (#1 Best Seller). Don currently executive-produces, writes and directs “traditional-style” horror for his company Pecosborn Productions, and writes scripts for The Creeps horror comics magazine. Also, he is a Southern California representative of Las Vegas Talent Agency. Note: Any motion picture titles that may be listed prior to Dinosaur Valley Girls (1997) are of amateur movies, the first of 41 of which Don Glut made when he was nine years old.
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