I have a kind of respect - a worshipful attitude, even - for nature and the natural order and the cosmos and the seasons.

I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.

I defend myself by improving myself.

I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.

I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.

But perhaps more important, as someone wishing to make a comment or two about contemporary life and values, I don't have to dig through libraries or travel to exotic lands to arrive at a view of our modern situation refracted through the lens of the preindustrial world, or the uncommercialized, unfranchised, perhaps unsanitized-and therefore supposedly more "authentic"-perspective ofthe Third World. Very simply, this is because that "other" world, as alien as if separated by centuries in time, is the one from which I came

I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.