I used to have to wear a gas mask to school when I was a kid because of the dust. I would tell people that the first light I saw was in a movie theater, because the sun was just a little glow.

The reality of things going on around me is more interesting than the fantasies of the world I work in.

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

Banks wont even loan each other money, everybody's going broke, and here we are inside here, these people are going to be out on the street selling apples and pencils and they're still going to be buying paintings for this money, so I don't know what's going on in this world.

I've always been doing some sort of art. I started off, when I was very young, painting.

You know, this is such a rich time that we've just been involved in, and there's really a job now for historians. Film is still very young. This is the first hundred years of filmmaking. So I think it's important that we have some sense of history and continuity. Especially in film.

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.