I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong.

I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that.

Hey, baby, nobody suffers like the poor.

I probably did a dozen plays, like Off-Off-Broadway stuff.

Bounty hunters these days - because everything is so sophisticated with computers and surveillance, it doesn't have to be a one-man-army-type guy who goes in and kicks a door down.

People ask me about that all the time. They say, "Did you ever think of directing?" And I say, "It's completely out of the question."

Julian Schnabel painted a picture that he dedicated to my character in Rumble Fish. It was called The Motorcycle Boy. I remember when he brought it over to me at the Mayflower Hotel [in New York] years ago. This is when you and I knew each other.