houseless. feed it's foodless. >> i think it felt important at that time because i could see the country shifting. suddenly we were beginning to elect people by how they looked with rather than what they really stood for. >> now declared with young bill mackay the winner. >> i win, but what have i really won. >> marvin, what do we do now? >> we never discussed with what i would do if i won. now what am i going to do. that's how i wanted to end the film. >> the conversation came out in 1974 in the shadow of watergate. >> pay attention. >> as it turns out what we call paranoid politics was actually really happening. there were people conspireing to control events. so you start to see movies that reflect that. >> independence day is very meaningful to me because sometimes i've been called with too independent for my own good.