You're like a turd that won't flush.

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.

Motivation and determination for anything comes from within. One can not barrow it from someone else.

You can change your perspective on any experience by given it a positive and empowering meaning.

To Reap The Result Of Destructive Behavior Is To Do Evil

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.

I do not think consciously of children [when writing] … I do know that children read me more intelligently than adults do.

It's the ratings, stupid, don't you know? They've got us putting more fuzz and wuzz on the air, cop-show stuff.

Clouds sink down the hills Coffee is hot again. The dog Turns and turns about, stops and sleeps.

I know what high stakes politics demands, it is a twenty-four seven, totally consuming experience.

My comfortable existence is reduced to a shallow meaningless party.

It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.