Filmmaking Is Exploring. Why Would I Want

Films Today Show Only A Dream World And Have Lost Touch With The Way People Really Are... In This Country, People Die At 21. They Die Emotionally At 21, Maybe Younger... My Responsibility As An Artist Is To Help People Get Past 21... The Films Are A Roadmap Through Emotional And Intellectual Terrain That Provides A Solution On How To Save Pain.

The Camera Is The Slave To The Actor.

I Won't Make Shorthand Films, Because I Don't Want To Manipulate Audiences Into Assuming Quick, Manufactured Truths.

I’ve Never Seen An Exploding Helicopter. I’ve Never Seen Anybody Go And Blow Somebody’s Head Off. So Why Should I Make Films About Them? But I Have Seen People Destroy Themselves In The Smallest Way, I’ve Seen People Withdraw, I’ve Seen People Hide Behind Political Ideas, Behind Dope, Behind The Sexual Revolution, Behind Fascism, Behind Hypocrisy, And I’ve Myself Done All These Things. So I Can Understand Them. What We Are Saying Is So Gentle. It’s Gentleness. We Have Problems, Terrible Problems, But Our Problems Are Human Problems.

To Me There Is A Name For Each Person. I Think It’s Marvelous To Have A Name. A Woman Is Not A Woman. It’s Either Gena Or My Mother Or Some Other Person.