Being pretty crazy while being chased by the National Enquirer is not good. The British tabloids were the worst.

We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it.

It's no accident that all the awards are for smaller movies. When you have $100 million in the budget for a movie, there's something obscenely wrong with the picture. But we didn't in those days, so it was fun.

Peter Biskind's Easy Riders, Raging Bulls was made all about drugs, when to most of us, that just meant pot and magic mushrooms. He made it seem like we were all shooting heroin into our eyeballs. But that's part of the whole '60s and what it represented: feminism and civil rights and trying to stop the war. Hopefully we're starting to see some of that optimism again, through the excitement around Barack Obama.

There's a lot of bullshit in Peter Fonda's autobiography. A great deal of it is complete fabrication.

If you're gonna fall apart, do it in your own bedroom.

I love horror movies because they're really fun. They tap into those wonderful primal emotions.