kp: JAWS II made me want to be a teenager. What did it make you want to do?
kg: It made me want to STOP being a teenager! I was the youngest of all the actors playing "the kids". The rest were all over 20. I was 16. So they were all having affairs, partying, living the wild life on location. And I was everyone's "kid brother.

Then one of the actresses would come to me at 2am to cry, because one of the guys had dumped them, but then laugh when I suggested myself as a possible replacement. I spent that whole film trying, unsucessfully, to lose my virginity. Ick.

kp: Did you make out with Donna Wilkes?
kg: Yeah, for about 2 minutes one night. We'd sit around and she'd ask me about acting (I had done theater in New York, so I guess it seemed like I knew what I was talking about.) One night I kissed her. She kissed back. It was nice.

kp: Sometimes the most beautiful girls are the loneliest.
kg: I thought it was the start of something. It wasn't. She quickly moved on to one of the 'grown-up' guys. Sigh...

kp: Most of your movies are adaptated from novels; I imagine that you read non stop. What are you reading currently?
kg: Actually, I don't read novels all that much. Mostly too busy working, and there's always a pile of scripts to read. Most of the books I've made into films were specifically suggested to me by someone else - usually a producer. I did just read a very powerful novel called 'Famine' by Todd Komarnicki. One of the first books I've read in a while that wasn't because someone said - 'we want to make a film of this.'

kp: Who are some of your favorite authors?
kg: Well I grew up on 'literate sci-fi': Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov. Certainly Kurt Vonnegut is way up there, as is the man I consider his spiritual grandfather, Mark Twain. I still love Robert Cormier. Haruki Murikami is really interesting. I just read his book 'Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World'. Wonderfully trippy.

kp: What is your favorite Kurt Vonnegut book?
kg: Probably 'Breakfast of Champions'. I can barely think of the last line without getting tears in my eyes. But I love a lot of them.

kp: What is the first record you ever bought?
kg: "Paperback Writer/Rain" by the Beatles (45 rpm). "The Beatles' 2nd Album" (LP)

kp: What was the first concert you ever attended?
kg: The Kinks, at a free concert on Central Park.

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