Yes, I have a lot of regrets. Though some people are fascinated with what I did as a teenager and find it very exciting, I lost my entire youth, 16 - 21 running from the police and 21-26 sitting in prison. Being on the run was a very lonely life. I never got to go to a senior prom, a high school football game or share a relationship with someone my own age. Even though I know where it brought me today, I wouldn't want to have to live it over again.

2) How did you settle on Pan Am of all airlines to finance your travels and cash flow?

Pan Am was the nation's flag carrier in the late 1960s. It flew all over the world. It was the Ritz Carlton of airlines.

3) During your criminal years, if you had wanted to go straight (as it seems you did in San Francisco and Downey, CA), could you really have without much danger, or was there enough evidence/trails to make any chance of a normal life impossible?

Once I did the things I did, it was impossible to go back. I could have given myself up, but I knew I would have gone to prison. You keep doing things to stay one step ahead until one day you get too tired to run any longer.

4) Do you find your current seminar work as fulfilling as your work as a professor in Utah? From what I've read, your seminars are as well-received as your classes were.

I have been conducting seminars around the world for over 25 years. I have had the opportunity to work for and advise over 65 % of the Fortune 500 Companies and 50 of the nation's largest banks, but I get the most satisfaction at teaching at the FBI Academy. I find what I do today very fulfilling.

5) Would it be possible to pull off the kind of crimes you did in today's well connected society? Do the Internet and criminal databases make things easier or harder? In view of the security issues now plaguing America, your book took on a chilling aspect from a certain point of view.

What I did 35 years ago is now 800 times easier to do today. Back when I did the things I did, it took a great deal of planning. You had to learn how to print, do color separations, make negatives, plates, etc. Today, due to technology, color copiers, scanners, computers, ink jet printers, make it child's play. I have over 5 million miles on American Airlines. I travel 3-4 days each week. The airports are no more secure today than they were 35 years ago when I did what I did. It would be much easier for me to make an airline ID card and a pilot license with my home PC than it took me to do with cut-and-paste tools many years ago.

6) You obviously have a lot of respect for your father. During your con years, did thoughts of what he'd feel about your life affect you much?

My dad was a wonderful man. I loved him very much. Though he had some faults like we all do, I had a great deal of respect for him.

7) How did you explain to your sons about your youth?

I have three boys. My oldest is in law school, my middle child is in his third year of college and my youngest is a senior in high school. They have been wonderful boys. I believe they love their dad for being their dad. They are amazed at what I did as a teenager, but they really just relate to me as their father.

8) What are your thoughts about the movie based on your teenage years? If you are familiar with Steven Spielberg as a director, are you happy that the property has finally found a home with him as director?

I could not be more pleased or honored that Steven Spielberg, who I consider to be one of the greatest directors of our time, is directing my movie. I have to pinch myself every so often to make sure I'm not dreaming it. I am very pleased and if anyone can do justice to this film, it is he.

9) Are you a consultant on the film, and if so, do you have approval of changes so the screenplay doesn't go too far off the truth? I will be amazed to see how they can condense everything you did and experienced within a two hour film.

I am not a consultant on the film. I have never met nor spoken to Steven Spielberg and I have not read the script. I prefer not to. I am sure that Hollywood will make some changes to condense my life into 2 hours, but with such fine actors as Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio, if anyone can do it well, they can.

10) From what you know of the script, do you feel it accurately portrays your motivations and family history? I've read reviews of the screenplay that paint your father in a less likeable light than in your book, which sounds like a Hollywood way of giving you motivation, as opposed to portraying things as they truly were.

I understand that they now portray my father in a better light--as he really was. Steven Spielberg has told the screenplay writer that he wants complete accuracy in the relationships and actual scams that I perpetrated. I hope in the end the movie will be entertaining, exciting, funny and bring home an important message about family, childhood and divorce.