Not Taking A Risk Is A Risk.

I'd Been Influenced By Reading Books On Art And Colonies That Existed In Paris And Places Like That And So When I Came To Europe I Came To France And I Had Very Little Money, And I Had To Live Low And Stayed In A Bohemian Section Of Paris With A Lot Of Other Students, Who Were From Medical School, Science School And Art School. We All Lived In A Kind Of Communal Way And I Was Challenged Politically, Because I Didn't Have A Clue And They Would Ask Me Questions About The Algerian War, Which Was Very Big In France In The Late '50s.

I Remember My Dad Came From Ireland And Scotland, And So He Carried With Him The Fear Of Poverty. So When I Wanted To Break Loose, It Kind Of Made Him Very Nervous.

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.

I Have Faith In The Pendulum Swinging. Right Now It's So Far Against The Wall That It Can't Go Any Farther; It's Gonna Start To Swing Back. That's My Optimism. One Of The Cures Is Gonna Be Getting The American People To Fully Wake Up. All The American People, Particularly Young People, Because They're Gonna Inherit This Earth; They're Gonna Inherit What We're Doing.

I Used To Feel Competitive About A Career, But Now The Only Things I'm Really Passionate About Are My Family, The Environment And Indians.