I'd like to make a great movie. I've made many movies. I think I've made some good movies, but I never felt I've made a great movie.
I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.
The drama teacher that I had in high school, back in Texas, was the only teacher who didn't kick me out of his class. He turned me on to 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. ' I had picked up Dylan with 'Bringing It All Back Home,' and he turned me on to the first couple of albums, which I hadn't heard.
Woody Guthrie was what folks who don't believe in anything would call an anomaly.
He's the real deal. Eric Taylor was one of my heroes and teachers when I started playing around Houston in the early 1970s.
I make an embarrassing amount of money for a borderline Marxist, just by selling 100,000 records. I don't sell millions of records, and I don't need to.
I ain't ever satisfied.
As an actor, I'm thankful I have lived not one life, but many.
I feel absolutely no threat or fear in Mexico City.
It was wrong if there was a man suffering altitude problems and was huddled under a rock, just to lift your hat, say 'good morning' and pass on by, he said. Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.
I will never turn to God.