I Was Able To Do To Sleep

The World Is Dealing With Issues Of Immigration, Deindustrialization, And Poverty.

[the Strike In 1968] Brought Us Together With Teachers And Also With Progressive Whites. All Of Us Came From Diverse Backgrounds, But At The Same Time The Reasons Why We Were At San Francisco State In The Late Sixties Was Because Of The Agitation And Movement Building That Had Occurred Within Our Communities. We Saw Ourselves Not Separate From The Community But Intimately Connected To It.

You Have This Response Of Angry Young People, With A War Going On In Vietnam, A Poverty Program That Was Insufficient, And Police Brutality.

I Have The Capacity To Express What I Feel Needs To Be Expressed. And I Try To Do What I Believe In.

Some Of These Things I Saw In Foreign Films - African Films, Cuban Films - Long Before I Decided To Really Go On This Course As An Actor. I Started To Think About What Values I Saw In Those Films That I Wanted To Bring To My Projects