As an actor, you have no control really.

The man is clear in his mind, but his soul is mad.

It takes more than going down to the video store and renting "Easy Rider" to be a rebel.

I was very shy, and it was a lot easier for me to communicate if I had a camera between me and other people.

Like all artists, I want to cheat death a little and contribute something to the next generation.

People keep asking me, 'What evil lurks in you to play such bad characters?' There is no evil in me, I just wear tight underwear.

Just because it happened to you, doesn't mean it's interesting.

Art is a bad word in Hollywood. You use art too many times and they show you the elevator and then your name is taken off the parking lot.

My whole written history is one big lie! I mean, I can't even believe my history.

In a world where the dead have returned to life, the word" trouble' loses much of its meaning.

Work is fun to me. All those years of being an actor and a director and not being able to get a job - two weeks is too long to not know what my next job will be.

Humans are in love with the idea of our persisting, ' he said. 'We fetishize it, really. Our retirement funds, our genealogies. Our so-called ideas for the ages.

I miss you something awful sometimes

Woe to him who neglects to recommend himself to Mary, and thus closes the channel of grace!

A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.

A faith like Lincoln's would transform the world!

As I would learn later in life, money makes you extremely handsome.

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

The history of what the law has been is necessary to the knowledge of what the law is.

We write to make sense of it all.

I went to law school and took a law degree, and counseled all my clients to plead insanity.