I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface.

The first job I had was a Pampers commercial. And I used to go with my father whenever he would do a performance. I remember clinging to his legs, saying, 'Please. Take me with you.'

I am a gypsy, in a way. It's a condition of my profession.

I don't think of myself as offbeat and weird. As a kid, I saw myself as the type of guy who would run into a burning building to save the baby.

We will persevere, come life or death.

When I die, don't let my death stop the resistance.

He that lives to live forever, never fears dying.

To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.