Dennis Hopper

“'Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country.”

“Two chicks. I mean, ladies... ah - women, girls, whatever the term is. I'll get it. I've got it marked down somewhere.”

“When some people were going around being surf bums and tennis bums, I was being a gallery bum. I really liked galleries.”

“I did a video with Mick Jagger down in Rio de Janeiro. But I played a video director, and that's the closest I've gotten to directing, except Bob Dylan came and had a few meetings with me about doing a video for him.”

“Independent films in this country are in the same position. Miramax and Fine Line are not independent - they're with Disney! Come on. Or they're with Warner Brothers. They're all with somebody.”

“Seven of those days were pretty good. The eighth day was the bad one.”

“To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.”