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The Technology Available For Film-making Now Is Incredible, But I Am A Big Believer That It's All In The Story.

Part Of Me Is Drawn To The Nature Of Sadness Because I Think Life Is Sad, And Sadness Is Not Something That Should Be Avoided Or Denied. It's A Fact Of Life, Like Contradictions Are.

I Don't Know What Your Childhood Was Like, But We Didn't Have Much Money. We'd Go To A Movie On A Saturday Night, Then On Wednesday Night My Parents Would Walk Us Over To The Library. It Was Such A Big Deal, To Go In And Get My Own Book.

I Was Raised In California During The Second World War And Into The '50s And Everything Was Fine, Everything Was Great. The Sun Always Shone, Everybody Looked Healthy And Wore Ties And Smoked In Restaurants, And There Were Cars For Everybody - Except Us, Because I Came From A Lower Class Neighbourhood. But [in France] I Realised There Was A Different Point Of View, So When I Came Back To America A Year And A Half Later I Was Much More Focused On My Own Country Culturally And Politically.

I Believe In Mythology. I Guess I Share Joseph Campbell's Notion That A Culture Or Society Without Mythology Would Die, And We're Close To That.