The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.

And Walker was made with a Mexican crew, although it was shot in Nicaragua.

Justin Salinger showed up one day with a pink cowboy hat on and everyone else got really annoyed because somehow he'd managed to get the pink cowboy hat.

The future is always a dystopia in movies.

One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.

Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.

I thought that punk in its original state was a revolutionary movement. But like surrealism, it failed in its revolutionary attempt.

The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.

Yeah, I'd be happy to go back to Mexico or Japan to make another film.

There is no future in a job. The only future is inside oneself. We look inside rather than outside. We become producer rather than consumers of other peoples’ production.

I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.

Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.

I respect the second amendment and the right of individuals to own firearms. But I think that we all agree that there are some people who should not be able just to walk in and buy weapons of war.

You can’t get away from yourself, but you can get yourself out of the way.

United we stand, divided we fall. Let us not split into factions which must destroy that union upon which our existence hangs.

Crowds respond to anthemic choruses.

Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours.

How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.

I didn't say the things I said.