The original deal we made was that Walker would be treated like a regular movie, rather than an arthouse thing.

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.

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.

Never be afraid to love. Just be careful who you love.

If your children asked you about your honesty with God, Let them look at the pictures with the person you married and was the reason they're alive...and they will understand.

I'm not letting you -- us -- go that easily, sweetheart, so get used to having me in your life.

What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.

You must appreciate beauty for it to endure.

It isn't where you came from

You get dealt a hand and you play those cards the best you can.

Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time.