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

The way I deal with arthritis is to keep moving. As long as I can play hard tennis, as long as I can ski or ride a horse - all kinds of things can come your way. As long as you can, do it. People who retire die. My dad retired and died shortly after. Just keep moving.

I was raised in California during the Second World War and into the '50s and everything was fine, everything was great. The sun always shone, everybody looked healthy and wore ties and smoked in restaurants, and there were cars for everybody - except us, because I came from a lower class neighbourhood. But [in France] I realised there was a different point of view, so when I came back to America a year and a half later I was much more focused on my own country culturally and politically.

I think "quiet" sometime is a greater power than noise. It can harbor and reveal feelings that can't be expressed.

I'm gonna die but I haven't thought about retiring.

I think independent filmmakers, documentary filmmakers - they are journalists.

In fact, I think more broadly about what an audience requires, but I want an audience to be fascinated by the process of finding an answer, or finding out there isn't one.