“Peter Fonda is the reason I became a motorcyclist. I saw Easy Rider and I bought a motorcycle the next day, and I rode it all the way from LA to San Francisco.” WayReasonNextEasySawsPeterNext DaySan FranciscoMotorcycleRidersEasy Rider Author:Nicolas Cage
“[After Easy Rider] I couldn't get another movie, so I lived in Mexico City for a couple of years. I lived in Paris for a couple of years. I didn't take any photographs, and then I went to Japan and saw a Nikon used. I bought it, and I just started, like an alcoholic. I shot 300 rolls of film. That was the beginning of me starting again.” YearsFilmUsedEasyCitiesSawsCoupleShotsPhotographStartingParisJapanMexicoAlcoholicsRidersMexico CityNikonEasy Rider Author:Dennis Hopper
“I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace.” MeanRealHardMarketplaceEasy Rider Author:Jack Nicholson
“If you take a movie like Easy Rider which everyone counts as the beginning of New Hollywood, that is a big movement. And then, when you really dissect that film and the people that were behind that movie, you realize that it has Roger Corman written all over it. Easy Rider is a hybrid film, taking The Trip and The Wild Angels and making a new explosion. And the people that were making it, guess what, they were all [people who had worked with Roger Corman].” PeopleIfsBigsFilmEasyRealizingBehindsWrittenMovementAngelHollywoodOver ItExplosionsRogerRidersHybridEasy Rider Author:Alex Stapleton
“Peter Fonda was just this clean, cookie-cutter kind of a guy. Roger Corman turned him into the motorcycle man with The Wild Angels. Jack Nicholson, all of them, they all had these images that Roger Corman fueled, and Easy Rider, it was a big surprise to understand how much creative influence Roger had. A lot of people dismiss him as just launching famous people's careers or being a penny pinching producer, but he's so much more than that.” PeopleMenKindBigsGuyEasyCareersCreativeInfluenceAngelCleanSurpriseProducersPeterCookiesPenniesMotorcycleRogerRidersLaunchingCuttersNicholsonPinchingCookie CuttersBig SurprisesEasy Rider Author:Alex Stapleton
“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.” IfsNeedsGodWould BeReligionBeliefExistenceAtheismAtheistInventionInventingConfidence In GodAtheisticGod ExistsPhilosophy Of ReligionReligion ChristianPhilosophy And ReligionGod Is DeadGod Is Not GreatSubtle AtheistGod Does ExistEnlightenment ThinkersEasy Rider Author:Voltaire
“Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country.” CountryEasyMotorcycleRidersEasy Rider Author:Dennis Hopper
“Henry Fonda's son: That's how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America.” AmericaEasySonCaptainsRidersEasy Rider Author:Peter Fonda
“It takes more than going down to the video store and renting "Easy Rider" to be a rebel.” EasyStoresVideoRebelRidersEasy Rider Author:Dennis Hopper
“I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace. Of course, don't ever tell anybody that they're not free, 'cause then they're gonna get real busy killin' and maimin' to prove to you that they are. Oh yeah, they're gonna talk to you and talk to you and talk to you about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it's gonna scare 'em.” MeanRealHardCoursesIndividualCausesProveYeahBusyEmsScareGet RealMarketplaceIndividual FreedomEasy Rider Author:Jack Nicholson