All Of The Films That I've Made

The Art Of Making A Film And Its Content Are Far More Interesting To Me Than The Result Or Impact.

I Was Producing Things I Was Acting In, But I Had Never Directed And I Felt It Was Time. I Was Looking For A Piece Of Material That Was About Behavior And Feelings. When I Read Judith Guest's Book, I Thought, This Is It.

I'd Been Influenced By Reading Books On Art And Colonies That Existed In Paris And Places Like That And So When I Came To Europe I Came To France And I Had Very Little Money, And I Had To Live Low And Stayed In A Bohemian Section Of Paris With A Lot Of Other Students, Who Were From Medical School, Science School And Art School. We All Lived In A Kind Of Communal Way And I Was Challenged Politically, Because I Didn't Have A Clue And They Would Ask Me Questions About The Algerian War, Which Was Very Big In France In The Late '50s.

Journalism Has Changed Tremendously Because Of The Democratization Of Information. Anybody Can Put Something Up On The Internet. It's Harder And Harder To Find What The Truth Is.

Health Food May Be Good For The Conscience But Oreos Taste A Hell Of A Lot Better.