He always had something going on. If you want to see his best movie (IMHO) see "Enemies a Love Story"
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000696I7/104-7658784-2060762?v=glance&n=130
Silver is a good guy, but it was one of those shallow
one-page NYT mag. interviews that has about a dozen questions and one-sentence answers. A semi-hostile interview, and not very enlightening.
A real interview with Ron would be interesting.