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" Bob Dylan is out of the mentorship of Allen Ginsberg. "
Bob
Out
Dylan
" Brando's a family friend. His mother gave my father a shot to be in a play at the Omaha Community Playhouse. That was the first production he was in. "
Father
Play
Mother
" Every director is so different from every other one. "
Different
Director
Other
" Getting out from under the shadow of Henry Fonda was difficult. "
Henry
Getting
Difficult
" Henry Fonda's son: That's how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America. "
America
Good
Easy
" I always seemed to disappoint them. They expected me to be different than Henry or exactly like Henry. I was neither. "
Always
Me
Like
" I don't trust anybody who didn't inhale. "
Anybody
Who
Trust
" If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work. "
Energy
Ego
Great
" I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality. "
Business
Morality
Always
" I knew Henry Fonda was my father, but I didn't know who I was. They all thought of me as Henry Fonda's son. Unfortunately for them, they never got to know me. "
Son
Me
Know
" I know I'm responsible for not having got the kind of roles that I'd have liked to. ' "
Kind
Got
Responsible
" I love to direct my daughter, and act with her, and we both want to work with Jane again. "
Daughter
Again
Work
" I truly miss the genius of the music of John Lennon, as I'm sure everybody does. "
Genius
Miss
Everybody
" It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on. "
Simple
Wonderful
Bees
" It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The moralities that were followed during our parents' generation were basically arbitrary. This caused a rift between the two generations, which was brought on by the beatniks. "
Time
Parents
Long
" I've always internalized things. "
Always
Things
" I want to be on set and die hearing those words: Where's Peter? "
Those
Die
Hearing
" I want to die in the saddle. I love writing, producing, acting, directing. "
Saddle
Writing
Want
" I was famous from birth. "
Birth
Famous
" I was named Beekeeper of the Year by the Florida State Beekeeping Association. "
Florida
Association
Named
" I wasn't really aware that my father was working for quite a while. I thought it was my mother who had all the money! "
Father
Working
Thought
" Lennon was not very fond of me. Lennon didn't like to be around somebody else who was likely to be the center of attention and didn't like being on deck with somebody who was intellectually as hot as he was. "
Hot
Center
Attention
" My abilities grow with each job, whether it's writing or directing. When I stop learing, I'll stop working. "
Writing
Each
Grow
" My actual intake of different substances was far below what people thought it was, no matter how weird or outrageous they think I am. "
Think
Weird
Far
" People ask me from time to time what it was like growing up with Henry Fonda as my father. I say, Ever see Fort Apache? He was like Colonel Thursday. "
People
Me
Growing Up
" Remember, Alan Greenspan was a member of Ayn Rand's collective. To understand this is to understand why we are doomed with the Federal Reserve. "
Collective
Remember
Why
" The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me. "
Words
God
Courage
" When Jane and I spoke out, people thought, What ungrateful children those two kids are to be that nasty about their father. "
Father
Two
Thought
" You don't become the character. "
Character
You
Become
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