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

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.

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

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.

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

Destiny is a matter of chance and choice.

When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.

Art may make a suite of clothes, but nature must produce a man.

All time exists. That is the truth.... If the future did not exist now, how could we journey toward it? If the past does not exist still, how could we leave it behind?

Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form.

Explore the idea of what the language that women speak would really be like if no one were there to correct them.

The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.

The best way to be a good father to your children is to be a good husband to their mother.

Doesn't the theory of relativity concern literature too? In our world there is no longer any room for the privileged observer, as there is none for the observer of the universe - we are all within.

While you see a chance take it, find romance, fake it, because it's all on you.