I've got a feeling I'm leaving stardom behind, you know. I'm gradually becoming more of a filmmaker, acquiring a different kind of dignity from that which you achieve in acting. After all, I'm no matinee idol, and I'm getting older. I don't think I can be doing my kind of thing in the seventies; I want to be on more of the creative side of business.

Every time I start thinking the world is all bad, then I start seeing people out there having a good time on motorcycles. It makes me take another look.

I need to have a reason why I'm doing something. Otherwise I'm lost.

When I believe in something, I fight like hell for it.

Racing is life. Everything else is just waiting.

I deal with certain things in my work because of who I am. I make work in order to make people think.

When you're racing, it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.