I couldn't get a job acting all the time and there were down periods where I could take photographs or paint. I got into a lot of trouble when I was young, from making two films with James Dean, watching him work and then him dying and thinking I could turn down work. There was a big difference, he was a star and I wasn't. So I got in a lot of trouble and was essentially banned from Hollywood.

When I was about 14. I saw my first mountain. I saw the ocean for the first time. I remember thinking that that ocean looked very similar to our wheat fields. I didn't know what I thought I would see when I looked out at the ocean, but I thought I'd see something different.

I was always involved in art and when I went under contract at Warner Bros. at 18, it afforded me the possibility of never having to stop painting, never having to stop taking photographs and so on, and to actually live a cultural life.

I was very shy, and it was a lot easier for me to communicate if I had a camera between me and other people.

It takes more than going down to the video store and renting "Easy Rider" to be a rebel.

I was a Shakespearean actor, I had preconceived ideas, line readings - everything was a gesture, everything was conscious.

I wanted to be an actor. I decided when I was very young, when I first saw movies, that I wanted to be an actor.