I was an abstract expressionist before I had seen any abstract expressionist paintings. I started when I was a kid and continued just doing abstract stuff all through high school.

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.

Saints preserve us, ' Dr. Kellen said, and squeezed Galen's shoulder. 'What have we done to our youth?

Step ahead immediately and do what you have to do before it's too late.

suicide is not just killing yourself, but the world outside

On the world stage, Donald Trump will lead from strength.

If the times aren't ripe, you have to ripen the times.

Just because you are successful in one area does not necessarily mean you're going to be successful in another.

Imagine if the whole point of this experience on planet Earth was to just open ourselves up more fully to who we really are, without filters, without masks, without any restrictions.

I believe that improvisation is really just a directorial tool. It's a writing tool.

I try to be a guide for people, to make their darkness bright and to make the pathway light, and never to condemn or control or criticize.

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.