I Consider Myself A Novice Film Actor.

The Goal Wasn't To Be A Millionaire Or To Be A Hollywood Star. That Was Not The Goal. The Goal Was Something About - The Goal Was To Find The Goal, But I Knew Where It Was.

I Got Out Of The Army - In My World - I Came To New York, For Instance, When The Civil Rights Movement Was Just Beginning, And That Created A Certain Energy, A Certain Rumble, A Certain Impetus For Black Actors.

I Think The Extent To Which I Have Any Balance At All, Any Mental Balance, Is Because Of Being A Farm Kid And Being Raised In Those Isolated Rural Areas.

The One Constant Through All The Years Has Been Baseball. America Has Rolled By Like An Army Of Steamrollers. It's Been Erased Like A Blackboard, Rebuilt, And Erased Again. But Baseball Has Marked The Time. This Field, This Game, Is A Part Of Our Past. It Reminds Us Of All That Once Was Good, And What Could Be Again.

I Do Not Know If It Is True That All Actors Want To Direct And All Directors Want To Act, But In 1972 I Tried Directing And Decided I Had Better Stick To Acting.