Dennis Hopper — American Actor born on May 17, 1936, died on May 29, 2010

Dennis Lee Hopper was an American actor, filmmaker, photographer, and artist. He attended the Actors Studio, making his first television appearance in 1954, and soon after appeared in two films with James Dean. In the next ten years he made a name in television, and by the end of the 1960s had appeared in several films. Hopper also began a prolific and acclaimed photography career in the 1960s... (wikipedia)

'Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country.
To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.
Work is fun to me. All those years of being an actor and a director and not being able to get a job - two weeks is too long to not know what my next job will be.
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.