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

The man is clear in his mind, but his soul is mad.

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

I was someone who was out of control and not to be worked with. It was partly because method acting was a new thing in Hollywood then and Marlon Brando had gotten through and Montgomery Clift had gotten through and James Dean but beyond that there wasn't really anybody.

You know, the history of California art doesn't start until about 1961, and that's when these photographs start. I mean, we have no history out here.

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

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.