I'd been influenced by reading books on art and colonies that existed in Paris and places like that and so when I came to Europe I came to France and I had very little money, and I had to live low and stayed in a bohemian section of Paris with a lot of other students, who were from medical school, science school and art school. We all lived in a kind of communal way and I was challenged politically, because I didn't have a clue and they would ask me questions about the Algerian War, which was very big in France in the late '50s.

People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.

The entertainment person gets a certain credibility, and the politician gets a certain notoriety. I'm against it.

I think you just keep going. I've been that way, my whole life.

Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It's a fact of life, like contradictions are.

You’re never going to be the same person you are right now.

Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent.