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.

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.

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.

I believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experience that can be the foundation of self-confidence.

Thus human beings judge of one another, superficially, casually, throwing contempt on one another, with but little reason, and no charity.

I've always thought young.

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

The truth is rarely as dreadful or as terrifying as what one imagines.

If I had five minutes to live, I don't think I'd be bothered singing a song. I'd be dead, so it won't really matter. I'd have a glass of wine and a cigarette.

I want to be around people smart enough to know God created the heavens and the earth.

Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.

If I can get them to think, get them to feel, get them to see, then I've done about all that I can as a teacher.

I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!