People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.

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

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.

The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.

There's a lot of money to be made by strip-mining and drilling the dirtiest oil on the planet. But why should the rest of us pay the price?

...if our humanity - our soul as a society - is overtaken by the materiel and cosmetic, there will be no hope of peace.

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.