In Method acting, you can't have preconceived ideas. You have to live in the moment. You have to keep yourself open.

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.

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

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

... I'm sort of a nervous person with the camera, so I will just shoot arbitrarily until I can focus and compose something, and then I make a shot. So generally, in [the] proof sheets, there are only three or four really concentrated efforts to take a photograph. It's not like a professional kind of person who sets it up so every photograph looks really cool.

I think of [my photographs] as found paintings because I don't crop them, I don't manipulate them or anything. So they're like found objects to me.

I never really made any money and it certainly cost me more to take photographs than I got for them.