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Once You Leave Sundance Suddenly You Run Into Bulldozers And Concrete And Cranes, And All That Heritage That The Mormon Culture Used To Be So Proud Of Is Turned Into Out Of Control Develpoment.

The Big Moment For Me Was Making 'all The President's Men'. It Was Not About Watergate Or President Nixon. I Wanted To Focus On Something I Thought Not Many People Knew About: How Do Journalists Get The Story?

Part Of Me Is Drawn To The Nature Of Sadness Because I Think Life Is Sad, And Sadness Is Not Something That Should Be Avoided Or Denied. It's A Fact Of Life, Like Contradictions Are.

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.

People Have Been So Busy Relating To How I Look, It's A Miracle I Didn't Become A Self-conscious Blob Of Protoplasm.