Jim Cameron is proof that if you are good, you'll get promoted.

After The Raven was completed Corman reportedly realized that he still had some shooting days left before the sets were torn down and so made another film The Terror (1963) on the spot with the remaining cast crew and sets. Another version of the story claims that he had a set rented for a month and finiRoger Cormand using it with three days to spare thus pushing him to use the set to make a new film. He worked his way up to a story reader.

Corman has been a mentor to young film directors including Francis Ford Coppola Martin Scorsese Ron Howard Peter Bogdanovich Jonathan Demme James Cameron Curtis Hanson John Sayles and many others. He has mostly worked on low-budget B movies.