The Tough Thing About Adulthood Is It

It's A Creative Enterprise, Just Like Art, Just Like Painting, Music. Creating Something Can Be Done In Different Categories, So To Do It In Film Is Just Another Expression, Which Is Great. Because It Translates So Well Because So Many People See The Work, If You're Lucky.

Journalism Has Changed Tremendously Because Of The Democratization Of Information. Anybody Can Put Something Up On The Internet. It's Harder And Harder To Find What The Truth Is.

Right Now I Am Working On Something That's Pretty Important To Me. It Has To Do With My Own History In Politics. I'd Done All The President's Men, And The History Of How That Came About Is A Story Unto Itself. It Began With The Candidate. No One Knows About That Connection. I Was On A Train, And I Was Promoting The Candidate Going From Jacksonville, Florida, Down To Miami To Duplicate What Candidates In 1972 Did.

The Big Moment For Me Was Making 'all The President's Men'. It Was Not About Watergate Or President Nixon. I Wanted To Focus On Something I Thought Not Many People Knew About: How Do Journalists Get The Story?

When I Started, I Was An Artist; I Wanted To Be An Artist. I Became An Actor Almost By Accident. I Acted For Fifteen Years And Tried To Produce. I Looked For Stories That Were The Story Beneath The Story That You Thought You Knew, Like 'the Candidate'.