I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.
I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by actors and actresses that tried to keep themselves young.
I really do miss being able to go through life a little less noticed.
I just wanted to paint and sketch and tell stories by drawing.
I’m not much interested in sport just as sport. I wouldn’t be interested in making a golf film or baseball or fishing film.
Get emotionally connected to your story so you can deliver it, you know, if you can’t deliver the emotions to your script there’s no point to your story.
I don’t think about when it’s going to stop and what you do before it stops. You just keep moving.
For ‘Jeremiah Johnson,’ nobody wanted to make that film. I went to Sydney Pollack, and I said, ‘Sydney, I live in the mountains, and I would like to make a film about a person that had to exist in the mountains and survive in the mountains.’
