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After Minnie and Moskowitz, I thought, ‘All right, I would like to make a picture to really say something.’ The most important thing in my life, in Gena’s life and in the lives of our intimate friends was the idea of marriage. We were deeply concerned with the change in illusions that marriage enge…

Gena tells everyone that it’s hard to live with me because there is nothing she can say that I don’t write down. I see Gena around the house and with the kids and I tape record what I see. I do tape record things and exaggerate them and blow them up and the incidents are not the same. I mean, I’m n…

To rap Nixon, even if you don’t like him, is a cop out. To put your life’s problems on the war or the impending threat of the bomb is a cop-out, because everyone knows, and still feels, that it begins with you. That life begins with yourself and your relation to people, your feeling about them, and…

As for showing the sexual act in film, I think that’s a lot of balls, phony, exploitative and commercial. It’s cheap voyeurism and I think there’s too damned much of it now anyway. It makes me very angry. If that makes me a prude, so be it. I think some things are private, and just as I wouldn’t sh…

It’s true that the women in my films are continuously being doublecrossed by men. They really are, and they recognize it. And my point of view in presenting it is, ‘All right. So what are you going to do about it? Are you going to put up a wall around you, or are you going to fight to protect some …