The most interesting part of filming is what the actors do. That's the primary link between the story and the audience.

I'm just terrible. At talking. With words.

Why have a pet hate? Why should it be confined? My hate is both wide ranging and total.

I'm not a terribly social person, and so I have to really like people to work with them.

I think people have the capacity to be many different things and many seemingly contradictory behaviors.

To be in a video is a ridiculous thing. It's almost impossible to do it without any humour

No. I really don't think I'm cool. I'm not.

As in, I think 'Badlands' is one of the funniest films of all time: "Every day I wish I was carried off to a magical land, but that never happened" is one of the funniest lines in any film.

I only ever privately tell people stuff for the scene. And I often ask what they feel is right. Normally, by the time that we're filming, if it doesn't work, it always the script.

I've always felt that actors in my experience have a very good and accurate instinct about whether something feels right or not. They just have a sense because they have to literally do it.

I'm pretty bad at seeing new films.

The world is all gates all opportunities strings of tension waiting to be struck.

I'm in the perfect position. It's a sports position and a political position where I can help better the lives of athletes around the world.

When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.

I don't believe in looking back. If you make a decision that you think is the proper one at a time, then that's the correct decision.

Hypertext, as Nelson [Ted Nelson] originally wrote, is interlinked reading and writing. Links make hypertext.

A lot of times, people have forgotten about an album by the time it's released, because it leaked three months earlier. Very strange days we live in.

Question everything, even if it represents generations of conventional wisdom.

Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.

The very idea of an infinite in place would be a contradiction in terms, as a place must begin and continue in time.

A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.