"I would love to play a British character one day. My accent wavers between Scottish and Irish very easily, though."

“I like things that are difficult, physically and mentally. Things that are really challenging, things that really maybe take a long time but really push me to my limits.”

“I am not religious, but I am a pious man... A religious man has a definite religion. He says "God is there" or "God is there," "God is there." "Your god is not my god, and that's all." But the pious man, he just looks out with awe, and says, "where is God?" And "well, I don't understand it and I would like to know what this creation really means." That is a pious man, who is really touched by the greatness of nature and of the creation.”

Source : Television interview clip, profiles.nlm.nih.gov. 1980.

“Only when a tree has fallen can you take the measure of it. It is the same with a man.”

“Agriculture is the process of turning eco-systems into people.”

“To me, a revolutionary film is not a film about a revolution. It has a lot more to do with the art form. It's a film that is revolting against the old established language of cinema that had been brainwashing the people for decades. It is a film that is trying to find ways to use sound and image differently.”

“If you feel good, you're going to look good.”

“The fight against drug trafficking is a wildfire that threatens to consume those fundamental rights of the individual deliberately enshrined in our Constitution.”

“I thought I'd be a librarian until I met some crazy ones.”