Dennis Hopper: If it wasn’t for my grandmother’s eggs, I’d be dust — theguardian.com

Most people given the opportunity to interview Dennis Hopper were content to know about the effects on his life of James Dean, Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, or Natalie Wood. I chose Mao Zedong. We were talking in Notting Hill in 2004. I was going through a period of being fascinated by people who have damaged art, and more than anything I wanted to hear why Hopper had fired bullets into his Warhol portrait of Mao.

Read More