I don't see myself as beautiful. I was a kid who was freckle-faced, and they used to call me 'hay head.'

I think documentary filmmakers need as much protection as possible under journalist's privilege. How else is the public to know what is going on?

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.

Generally speaking, I went through that. I came to a place where I realised what true value was. It wasn't money. Money is a means to achieving an end, but it's not the end.

Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it.

Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.

Radio, newspapers, they were normal parts of my life. In those days, you had to go somewhere to watch television and leave something to see it.