The More The Art Dominated My Life

I'm Really Much More Like Phil Potter From [the 1979 Film] Starting Over. People Do Think I'm The Bandit [from Smokey And The Bandit ], And I'm A Lot More Serious Than That.

Goldie [hawn] Is One Of The Sharpest Ladies I've Ever Worked With. She Doesn't Miss A Thing. She's My Greatest Audience. She Laughs At All My Stories And In The Right Places, Too.

I Had Known Hal [needham] For A While By The Time He Moved In, So I Was Sure We'd Get Along Well, And We Did. He'd Go Off And Do His Gigs And I Would Do Mine, And When We Were Lucky We Got To Work On The Same Ones.

Our Family Really Didn't Have A Car; We Had My Dad's Police Cruiser. Later He Got A Buick, And That's What I Was Driving When I Had A Wreck. I'm Lucky It Was As Big And Strong As It Was, Because That Buick Is What Saved My Life.

Smokey And The Bandit Was The First Picture [hal Needham ] Directed, And I Knew He Could Handle It. I Had Just Directed Gator, And He Saw My Style And Used That As A Pattern.