I Am Passionate. I Am

From My Experience In My Country, America Over And Over Again Takes Itself Right To The Brink, It Puts One Foot Over But It Never Goes Over. It Wakes Up At The Last Minute And Says Woah, And Then Pulls Back...

I Don't See Myself As Beautiful. I Was A Kid Who Was Freckle-faced, And They Used To Call Me 'hay Head.'

The Art Of Making A Film And Its Content Are Far More Interesting To Me Than The Result Or Impact.

I Was Never A Good Student. I Had To Be Dragged Into Kindergarten. It Was Hard To Sit And Listen To Somebody Talk. I Wanted To Be Out, Educated By Experience And Adventure, And I Didn't Know How To Express That.

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.