It's always nice when the eccentrics show up..

I thought that punk in its original state was a revolutionary movement. But like surrealism, it failed in its revolutionary attempt..

You'd never have a motorcycle policeman out on the Indian reservation..

The future is always a dystopia in movies..

The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king..

Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures..

Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's re….

Justin Salinger showed up one day with a pink cowboy hat on and everyone else got really annoyed because somehow he'd managed to get the pink cowboy ….

The original deal we made was that Walker would be treated like a regular movie, rather than an arthouse thing..

I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say..

One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister..

My film is intentionally political. And I think that's really the issue..

I did not find my studies particularly enthralling..

Yeah, I'd be happy to go back to Mexico or Japan to make another film..

No, I did a film called 'Death and the Compass' as well..

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square..

You can't change the system through violence..

In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all o….

Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked..

And Walker was made with a Mexican crew, although it was shot in Nicaragua..

Artists make their work to be seen by others. Well, really we do it to please ourselves, but whatever your art is, you want it to be seen by an audie….