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What Really Matters Is The Work. And What Matters To Me Is Doing The Work. I'm Not Looking At The Back End: "what Am I Going To Get Out Of This? What's Going To Be The Reward?" I'm Just Looking At The Work, The Pleasure Of Being Able To Do The Work. And That's What The Fun Is: To Climb Up The Mountain Is The Fun, Not Standing At The Top. There's Nowhere To Go. But Climbing Up, That Struggle, That To Me Is Where The Fun Is. That To Me Is The Thrill. But Once That's Over, That's Kind Of It. I Don't Look Too Much Beyond That.

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.

Politics Right Now Is In A Very Dark Place, And I Think The Only Place For Me Is To Do What I Do - Make Films, Create Art, Watch It As It Evolves. Right Now It's Like Humpty Dumpty Sitting On A Wall, And A Great Fall Is Happening. The Behavior Seems To Be Really Dumb.

When I Was A Kid I Was Not A Good Student. I Went To The University Of Colarado, My Grades Were Poor. I Was Asked To Leave After A Year. What I Really Wanted To Do Was To Be An Artist.

I've Been Able To Carve Out Spaces For Myself. At Sundance, I'm In The Mountains - My Property Is Private. I Get On A Horse And Ride For Three, Four Hours. Sometimes Five. I Get Lost. But When I'm In, I'm In.