You can't change the system through violence.

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 hold a belief longer than you can hold your breath.

No sooner is it a little calmer with me than it is almost too calm as though I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy

Mortal fate is hard. You'd best get used to it.

Your life only gets better when you get better, and you can improve yourself without limit. Learn something new every day.

When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.

The term "genius" gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.

An example is ObamaCare, which is now embattled in the Senate. If that goes through the way [Barack] Obama wants, we will have something very much like the British system.

Teenage rebellion is for suburban schoolchildren. Get over it.

Hope for forces which you do not yet have.

All you need to do to learn to pray is to pray.