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….

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

The future is always a dystopia in movies..

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

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

The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem..

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

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

You can't change the system through violence..

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

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

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 ….

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

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

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

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….

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….

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

I did not find my studies particularly enthralling..

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