Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country.

I made a picture called Super Mario Bros., and my six-year-old son at the time - he's now 18 - he said, 'Dad I think you're probably a pretty good actor, but why did you play that terrible guy King Koopa in Super Mario Bros?' And I said, 'Well Henry, I did that so you could have shoes,' and he said, 'Dad, I don't need shoes that badly.'

Independent films in this country are in the same position. Miramax and Fine Line are not independent - they're with Disney! Come on. Or they're with Warner Brothers. They're all with somebody.

My whole written history is one big lie! I mean, I can't even believe my history.

For most of my life, I wasn't on the Left.

To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.

The best and only authentic book written on the sixties underground.