I love spending the afternoon with these women! I never talk. I just sit and listen and smile. They tell me everything! They forget I’m a man! I might as well have a dress on. Then I also read for two years all the women’s pages. Everything is how to be younger. How to stay younger. What is the answer? What is the secret? So we made a film. I’m not afraid of putting in aging. I sit up and watch the morning shows. I was watching people patting people on the cheeks all morning. If I made a movie like that they’d kill me because they’d be so embarrassed. I would never choose that because it’s exploitative. That would be taking somebody and embarrassing them.

The problems with getting old have been talked about forever. Aging is a serious problem. It’s a fear. Somebody reaches forty, it’s a bigger fear. They want to be thirty. Somebody’s thirty, they want to be twenty, you know. So they can have all the access to life. So I think I can make a movie about that and maybe some poor sucker who has the same problem can figure it out. What I am asking is, can we beat that? Can we make it unimportant? Can we put it in perspective? Can we see life? Can we afford to talk about something instead of kidding ourselves?