Quotes from Dennis Hopper

'Easy Rider' and 'The Last Movie' were the only films that I made totally on my own.

I think 'Easy Rider' might have been the first time that someone made a film using found music instead of an orchestral score. No one had really used found music in a movie before, except to play on radios or when someone was singing in a scene.

I painted from the time I was five years old. I was going to be a painter, an actor, a director, and a writer.

I changed to Republican when Reagan became president because I wanted to see a change to years of Democrat-run Senate. And I voted Republican until Obama. I think he's terrific.

Warner Bros. got into television very early, so I did a lot of television there. In the beginning, it was sort of okay to do television. But then it became this thing where movie actors didn't do television - they certainly didn't do commercials, because that just meant the end of your career.

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.

Well, it's not just money. I consider myself establishment right now. I'm borderline establishment, I'm hanging on by my toenails - but I'm establishment.

I'm still around artists. I don't have anymore wall space. And I don't have the money to collect anymore, the prices are outrageous.

I never really made any money and it certainly cost me more to take photographs than I got for them.

Just because it happened to you, doesn't mean it's interesting.

My whole written history is one big lie! I mean, I can't even believe my history.

You know, the history of California art doesn't start until about 1961, and that's when these photographs start. I mean, we have no history out here.

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

In a world where the dead have returned to life, the word" trouble' loses much of its meaning.

It takes more than going down to the video store and renting "Easy Rider" to be a rebel.

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

In Method acting, you can't have preconceived ideas. You have to live in the moment. You have to keep yourself open.

I think, at one point, I'd been in the five most expensive movies ever made - not that I had large parts in them. 'Apocalypse Now' was one.

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

It's strange: I always try to do the best acting job I can do under the imaginary circumstances of my working position at any given time. But it's terrible when you know it's going bad, and you know it immediately. But you just have to still try to do the best job you can.

I was reading a lot of Thomas Jefferson at the time, and Jefferson said that every 20 years, if one party has stayed in power, it's your obligation as an American to vote the other party in.

Dialectic logic is there's only love and hate, you either love somebody or you hate them.

Society loves to put bubbles up there and pop them, and I resent it. I'd rather expose myself myself.

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