I Look At Going To Hollywood As

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.

In 1973, I Was Shown A Graphic Of How Dependent The United States Was On Nonrenewable Resources Like Oil And Coal And That Little Was Being Done To Change That. It Seemed Irrefutable That We Needed A Change In Direction Or We'd Be Paying A Huge Price Down The Road. That's When I Made A Commitment To Become A Political Activist.

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.

Journalism Has Changed Tremendously Because Of The Democratization Of Information. Anybody Can Put Something Up On The Internet. It's Harder And Harder To Find What The Truth Is.

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.