John Milius and Francis Ford Coppola and Oliver Stone - those guys are consummate filmmakers. They believe that you don't talk it, you show it. So when I find a role now, I try to find a visual way to tell what the character is about rather than trying to speak about it.

I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive.

There's so many characters they [studios] are not letting me play. And I thought, "Why don't you just go produce it yourself?".

Democracy has now become corrupted by the nature of the funders.

I've never turned down an autograph request. I've never not taken a picture with someone.

Ze soldiers are very hoppy shooting ze pipples who say that ze pipples are not hoppy.

Here's Henry, trying to burst the bubble still further, if indeed it needs more bursting