Quotes by Don Silver

“I forced myself to write every day, seven days a week for as much time as I could spare,”

“Someone didnt take their slot and the director called me and asked me to join. I had the feeling that this was my shot. When I overcame my feelings of inferiority I realized that this was a gift,”

“After I got sick and beat it I decided I was going to write because that is what I really wanted to do.”

“It made a mockery of everything that came before ideologically. There was no message to their actions.”

“I focused on the stories of individual people rather than making this a kind of polemic,”

“I worked on inventing their connection and how the 60s influenced their lives. It helps that Ive always been an extravagant liar,”

“That was the start of an incredible year,”

“I was 12 in 1968. From a serious kids vantage point this was a terrifying time to grow up,”

“I really feel like the dark side of the 60s began in that period, ... I wanted to explore that and show how that might have affected individuals, or how individuals had their lives changed by that shift. ... I do feel that a lot of the promise of the 60s was not only unfulfilled, but broken.”

“When I realized when (Stardust) was born, that sort of ignited an interest I had in the late 60s, ... Ive had it all my life, having just missed that period.”