Stanton Quotes

(on his role in Paris, Texas (1984)) The whole film evolved on a very organic level. It almost had a documentary feel to it. It wasn`t odd to be in the lead, I took the same approach as I would to any other part. I play myself as totally as I possibly can. My own Harry Dean Stanton act . . . I don`t know whatever happened to Travis. I`d say . . . it`s me. Still searching for liberation, or enlightenment, for lack of a better way to put it, and realizing that it might happen, it might not.

I invented the psychological histories and the relationship between Jack and Susan Stanton. I didn`t know anything about the Clintons. I don`t know more about the Clintons` marriage than you do.

Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.