I Was Saying To Paul Schrader That

It Was A Wonderful Time To Be Young. The 1960s Didn't End Until About 1976. We All Believed In Make Love Not War - We Were Idealistic Innocents, Darling, Despite The Drugs And Sex. We Were Sweet Lovely People Who Wanted To Throw Out All The Staid Institutions Who Placed Money And Wars Above All Else. When You're Young You Think That's How Life Works. None Of Us Were Famous, We Were Broke. We Didn't Think They'd Be Writing Books About Us In 30 Years. We Were Just Kids Doing The Right Thing.

I Got A Reputation For Being Sort Of Nuts And Difficult, Because I Was At That Point, So I Wasn't Much In Demand. And Also, On The Basic Level, I'd Made A Lot Of Movies That Didn't Make Money. And If You Make Movies That Don't Make Money - I Mean, It Is A Business, After All - You Are Not In Demand.

I Still Get Stopped By Those Freaky Fundamentalists Going "oh, I'm So Glad You Did Tribulation." And I Wanna Go, "don't Count Me Into Your Group, Honeybuns. I'm Not One Of You."

I Went To Work And Did A Lot Of Homework About What Was Wrong With Me

Mostly, In The Great Waldo Pepper I Remember The Lovely Ed Herrmann Befriending Me And Taking Care Of Me. I Was Crying A Lot. I Was A Real Mess When We Made That. But This Is All Such Ancient History, Jesus Lord. Was This Before Or After The Sting?