To accompany the Easy Riders, Raging Bulls documentary, we've delved into the BBC archive to present interview excerpts with some of Hollywood's best-known mavericks.
DENNIS HOPPER
Hollywood's most intense actor on making Easy Rider and playing the "baddest bad man ever" in Blue Velvet.
ROBERT ALTMAN
"I don't make the kind of films that they want to make". The maverick director blasts Hollywood and explains why he likes making films.
MARTIN SCORSESE
Making Raging Bull and Goodfellas and the moment Scorsese knew he wanted to be a film director.
JOHN SCHLESINGER
The British-born director on his Oscar-winning film Midnight Cowboy and his fascination with "losers and cowards".
