I don't smile a lot in my pictures. I'm always so... grim.

When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.

'Five Easy Pieces,' 'Easy Rider' - those are indie pictures; those were not studio pictures. They had relationships with studio distribution, but they were indies.

Pete offered tobacco and paper, but Claude brought out his cigarettes and they both decided to try those. Pete provided the match. When he had their cigarettes burning strongly he turned to look back at the road, then straight up ahead. "We'll get there for supper if we get there," he said, and Claude laughed. Pete was a young man, but had a wild old grin stretched all out of shape in the corners and punched full of holes.

I've always liked Tina Turner.

I haven't played a lot of nice guys.