The counterculture is always repackaged and made into a product. It's part of America.

I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down.

Cricket makes no sense to me. I find it beautiful to watch and I like that they break for tea. That is very cool, but I don't understand. My friends from The Clash tried to explain it years and years ago, but I didn't understand what they were talking about.

Everything is not laden with potential for drama in life.

When I studied with Nicholas Ray he was always telling us, "If you want to make films, watch a lot of films, but don't just watch films, go take a walk, look at the sky, read a book about meteorology, look at the design of people's shoes. Because all of them are part of filmmaking." So I thought, perfect! That's a good job for me.

[Iggi Pop] is very self-taught, self-educated, but, man, that guy knows about so many things.

Life has no plot, why must films or fiction?