I was lost, and that war [in Vietnam] was very alienating - not that I was against it or for it, but I was just lost after that war. As were many Americans.

I went to Vietnam, and I was there for a long time. [Using marijuana] made the difference between staying human or, as Michael Douglas said, becoming a beast.

I couldn't despise a man more than George W. Bush.

You get much more heat when you do something current.

I'm trying to understand my life. The one that I've experienced.

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.