[On River Phoenix] I would love to see what kind of choices he would be making now if he was still around, some of the characters that he would have played. I mean, to me he was like a rock star, you know, he had it all: he had the looks, he had a great name, he had an attitude, an energy, an excitement about him. He was instinctively like a, he was a rebel, you know? He was kind of Bob Dylan to me, at times, and he had a lot to say. And I`ve never seen too many interviews by him, but the ones that I saw were pretty electric, pretty... he was switched on, definitely.

Actually, I feel like [the film that I`ve just seen] every time I come out of the cinema. If that film`s about being a hippie, then I`m like, "That`s it, I`m gonna grow my own vegetables."

[On which actors inspired him] Definitely River Phoenix is somebody that I thought, "This guy is very cool." I wanted to be like him when I was a kid.