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

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

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.

I think of [my photographs] as found paintings because I don't crop them, I don't manipulate them or anything. So they're like found objects to me.

William James described success as a combination of two things. An inner ideal which is followed persistently with courage and Outer achievement related to that ideal.

After years of mocking L.A. for its smog the people of Denver are now coughing out of the other side of their mouths.

The present is where we get lost - if we forget our past and have no vision of the future

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.

Those who have tried meekness know the importance of being important.

I think everybody has a responsibility to themselves. If at the end of the day, you can rest and feel OK with yourself, that's fine.

Banning all Muslims will make it harder for us to do exactly what we need to do, which is to destroy ISIS. We need a strategy. We need to get the lawyers off the back of the warfighters.

Sharpness is overrated.

Your life's work is to find your life's work-and then to exercise the discipline, tenacity, and hard work it takes to pursue it

Health is value greater than studying.