I was very shy, and it was a lot easier for me to communicate if I had a camera between me and other people.

I was very shy, and it was a lot easier for me to communicate if I had a camera between me and other people.

Independent films in this country are in the same position. Miramax and Fine Line are not independent - they're with Disney! Come on. Or they're with Warner Brothers. They're all with somebody.

For most of my life, I wasn't on the Left.

You know, the history of California art doesn't start until about 1961, and that's when these photographs start. I mean, we have no history out here.

Work is fun to me. All those years of being an actor and a director and not being able to get a job - two weeks is too long to not know what my next job will be.

When I was about 14. I saw my first mountain. I saw the ocean for the first time. I remember thinking that that ocean looked very similar to our wheat fields. I didn't know what I thought I would see when I looked out at the ocean, but I thought I'd see something different.