Like All Actors, I Was Open To

I Never Had To Worry About Divestment Because I Never Invested.

It's An Honor Putting Art Above Politics. Politics Can Be Seductive In Terms Of Things Reductive To The Soul.

I Have A Lot Of Land. I Bought It Because I Had A Very Strong Feeling. I Was In My Early Twenties, And I Had Grown Up In Los Angeles And Had Seen That City Slide Off Into The Sea From The City I Knew As A Little Kid. It Lost Its Identity - Suddenly There Was Cement Everywhere And The Green Was Gone And The Air Was Bad - And I Wanted Out.

Curiously, Directing My Own Films Have Made Me More Tolerant And Patient. I've Always Been An Extremely Impatient Actor. Waiting Around Drove Me Nuts. But Now I'm Much More Sympathetic To A Director's Struggle.

We Program The Festival, After 20 Years, Exactly The Way We Did On The First Day.