The car is a character in the piece - I've never liked the car, I submitted to it's objectionable popularity.

We all know that looking back only gets you into an accident because you're going to run into something without seeing it.

We were surprised that the television series had the kind of longevity that it had after only four years of filming it and the reception in 6 countries around the world was quite extraordinary.

Isn't any friendship a love story?

First of all I thought it was ugly, I thought it was ridiculous that undercover police guys would drive a striped tomato and I've never been a big champion of Ford.

So being present becomes more and more the exercise the older you get.

I don't think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come close, because it's like asking to recreate the seventies and the audience sensibilities and that's impossible.