There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable.

It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit - summer stock - but couldn't afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell.

Everyone knows everything about all of us. That's too much knowledge!

I want to discover a truth for myself that is really true. Whether it's a piece of scientific knowledge, or a philosophical truth.

Heroes, classical heroes have the look of eagles, too. They're looking beyond the immediate problem and into the future.

I sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you.

Stop and smell the garlic! That's all you have to do.