To the extent of wanting me there and wanting to know everything about the scene, I think he realized it was important.

But time has caught up with it and I think vindicated it. Shampoo, too: very dark, very ambitious movie.

I'm excited and encouraged to see people getting involved with their public lands and forests. We really need the public's help to repair these heavily used recreation sites.

Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian.

Initially I was weary of it. When something is first done you're looking at all the things you wanted there that are not there.

People who can't think of anything else but whether the person you love is indented or convex should be doomed not to think of anything else but that, and so miss the other ninety-five percent of life.