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.

I've always been doing some sort of art. I started off, when I was very young, painting.

Just because it happened to you, doesn't mean it's interesting.

In Method acting, you can't have preconceived ideas. You have to live in the moment. You have to keep yourself open.

I was always involved in art and when I went under contract at Warner Bros. at 18, it afforded me the possibility of never having to stop painting, never having to stop taking photographs and so on, and to actually live a cultural life.

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.

It takes more than going down to the video store and renting "Easy Rider" to be a rebel.