Vice Squad' needed to be real if it was going to have the impact that I wanted it to have.

I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.

I was an outsider as a kid, and I grew up around a lot of violence.

I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.

Believe me, when you're sitting on death row, you want the appeal process to take time; as long as you're going through it, you're going to be alive.

ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.

I remember the first time I was booked into a jazz club. I was scared to death. I'm not a jazz artist. So I got to the club and spotted this big poster saying, 'Richie Havens, folk jazz artist.' Then I'd go to a rock club and I'm billed as a 'folk rock performer' and in the blues clubs I'd be a 'folk blues entertainer.'

On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.