Right now I am working on something that's pretty important to me. It has to do with my own history in politics. I'd done All the President's Men, and the history of how that came about is a story unto itself. It began with The Candidate. No one knows about that connection. I was on a train, and I was promoting The Candidate going from Jacksonville, Florida, down to Miami to duplicate what candidates in 1972 did.

It's all about greed and money and it's the driving force in Hollywood.

Criticism challenges current findings. The effort to defend one's position can lead to deeper insights or consideration of options previously not considered.

I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that.

What we are living with is the result of human choices and it can be changed by making better, wiser choices.

What I would do is when I was younger I would draw in a sketch book something that happened in my life and then write a little something on the side about what happened or what the story.

The world around us is in a sea change, and I think the glory of art is that it cannot only survive change, it can lead it