I still consider myself a consumer of music more than anything else.
He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.
If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
When a man says that he is Jesus or Napoleon, or that the Martians are after him, or claims something else that seems outrageous to common sense, he is labeled psychotic and locked up in a madhouse. Freedom of speech is only for normal people.
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility
In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.
Your life, unfortunately - and I mean this - your life is built on when love dies. There's a lot of love in your life that will simply die. And you wish that you died with it, you know? But you don't. And you go, oh, well, here I am.
To make personal movies that you are the author of, is quite a difficult thing. It takes a lot of stamina.
When the going got tough, I really had to draw on many of the same competitive instincts I did when I was skating. I really had to put my head down and stay positive. I had to fight.
Into The Wild had a great sense of wild, unpredictable freedom that I loved, and Unforgiven is just a great western with characters that walked the line between rightwrong with an ambiguity that felt very true to frontier life.