Hermann Vaske's interview with Harry Dean Stanton

[mcgoodle]

If this is his real personality, I think I'd rather hang out with the nut job he played in Repo Man.

[GailChasin]

I don't know exactly what an athiest is but it seems he believes in God (universe) whatever.....he's about love and consciousness. How is that not Godly!?! Coolness.

[GailChasin]

at his age why quit anything? it seems to have served him well - cigars I mean. no one lives forever!

[TakovskyPoetOfCinema]

Harry Dean may be an atheist but a lot of what he says is not compatible with atheism. Fascinating guy and a great actor.

[NickB1967]

He's smoking, yet he is 85 years old this year. C'mon Harry, put down the cig.

[donadthegonad]

hahaha to all you hypocritical christian cry babies!!! I love Harry Dean MORE for having seen this! Who the f*ck did you think you were identifying with when you were loving and respecting him before? (by the way, it's I saw, not I seen.)

[PojekGwapzpo123]

Walkin' in the green mile!!!

[TheNinthAngle]

This guy has a firmer grasp on reality than any of you egotistical fools who think you have the requisite insight to talk of God. You do not. But your folly is to be expected as it is a facet in the failings of human nature. You who speak of God and seek to condemn others are no better than false prophets and you and your ilk sicken me.

[tyme4mike]

I loved Stanton until I saw this interview..he's lost any respect I had for him..he's not intelligent..he makes quotes about what everybody else says and it does nothing more than make him sound like a blathering idiot..have another drink old man and keep on deceiving your fans but you're only deceiving yourself...

[harpinKeith]

@tyme4mike...Couldnt have said it better myself bro..I had much respect for him ever since i first seen "Cool hand Luke"...I actually really thought he was a Christian until i seen this interview..it literally broke my heart to hear him say "God is not nameable" and basically went out of his way to reduce The Awesome Creator of this Universe to a "Concept" or "figment of one's imagination!" I dont have the answers either BUT i do know we were designed and Created by an AWESOME God!! Look around!

[ridovem]

a Jungian! (probably among other things...) Sweet! ^..^

[GmanGregilla]

What he had to say in this interview seems to make very much sense, at least it does to me.

[harpinKeith]

Harry Dean Stanton, you have no light in you, only pitch black darkness! You've spent 84 yrs on His earth, and never even bothered to learn His Name??!! Unfortunately for you, you WILL learn His name on "The last Great Day" while you're kneeling before Him, but then it will be too late for you to get to know Him my friend..(Romans 14:11-12) "As i liveth saith The Lord, EVERY knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. So then,everyone of us shall give account of himself to God."

[snackluver]

And I thought Christianity was about tolerance and love. Don't say "our" God as if everyone is in agreement. I love overly confident Christians who mistake faith for knowledge.

[harpinKeith]

snackluver..i will kindly refer you back to (Romans 14:11-12) I wasn't speaking to YOU when i referred to "our" God, because obviously He is not your God by your own confession, in that case He will be your Judge. Seek him in this life while you still have His breath in your nostrils, and while He still honors your worship, because on that great & dreadful day in court Jesus will be either your advocate, or Judge. He leaves that decision up to you, see next comment for appropriate verse..

[harpinKeith]

(Deutoronomy 30:19) "I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:"

I have tolerance, and love. but i'm comissioned by Jesus to correct and reprove the poor lost souls, and point them to Christ so that they may LIVE! If you have not the Christ and His atonement, you will surely DIE in your sins! Harry went out of his way blaspheme God's Holy name. He is lost!

[flipwiggins]

@harpinKeith People like you are just choppin' at the bit to quote the bible and point out how everyone else is "lost" or "going to hell"!!!!, yet you didn't even take the time to listen to what Harry said. He didn't say he "didn't believe in God"!!! So you know God's name, huh? You're pathetic!

[orenjiotoku]

@flipwiggins , no he didn't say he believed in God either. He said he doesn't even believe in the concept of God. Though, he knows, like everyone in their hearts do, that there is a God. Human pride/ego keeps some people from acknowledging God in their lives. It would be admitting that there is someone more intelligent and powerful than themselves. Harry is making a foolish blanket statement about religion, that requires absolutely NO thought whatsoever. Lazy.

[theevilnerd666]

fuck you. he has better things to do mother fucker

[harpinKeith]

God bless you!

[theevilnerd666]

@harpinKeith why, what a positive way to reply to someone saying fuck u. thats the true way jesus would respond.

[harpinKeith]

It broke my heart, and nearly brought me to tears when he said.."You can't name God"..."God is a concept"..."A concept is meaningless." He basically said our God is nothing, and only a figment of our imaginations!!! He destroyed The Awesome Creator of this Universe, Lord Yahuwah in his own mind! Such a tragedy! I respected him before this, and i loved him in "Cool Hand Luke!" (Isaiah8:20) "To the Law & to the Testimony: If they speak not to this word, it is because there is no light in them."

[unrescued]

"Where were you before you were born?"

I have never in my life ever thought of that..

[VEGA747]

Nice Interview Bro !

[WestHollywoodWarrior]

the thing is...he makes it seem so easy....but you have to have been places to make it seem easy....

[guadalahabraspirit]

I have hanged out with Harry at Dan Tana's in LA and we had a talk about spirituality. He's a character fellow and I was very happy to meet him after seeing him in movies like Repo Man and Paris, Texas.

[NAZIPENIS101]

Death is the end baby. Thats all folks.

[IntermittentSprocket]

He still looks 90% from Alien back in 1979. Very different from seeing him acting very different, he's his true self.

[OzTerri]

love harry dean, he's a quiet icon since Paris Texas and much earlier , i was worried his career would go down the tubes, but real talent will always pay out

[gw7709]

he kinda reminds me of my dad

[BeJayusAndBeGorragh]

...and a shy and dry sense of humour too. Love the way he quotes Mark Twain. I recall a quote from, I think, Micheal Parkinson or else Terry Wogan, one of those chat show hosts from British TV, it went something like...although he seems a very quiet man I still couldn't get a word in edgeways! Love your work Harry!!

[BeJayusAndBeGorragh]

...and a shy and dry sense of humour too. Love the way he quotes Mark Twain. I recall a quote from, I think, Micheal Parkinson or else Terry Wogan, one of those chat show hosts from British TV, it went something like...although he seems a very quiet man I still couldn't get a word in edgeways! Love your work Harry!!

[TombyStone]

Harry Dean Stanton may be the coolest person on the planet and you're a great interviewer, asking some real meaningful stuff rather than the, 'So tell me the plot of your last film' crap. Keep it up.

[thrallofknowing]

Yeah, we don't want to know about a person's work. We just want to know if he thinks the pyhsical and 'spiritual' worlds are connected, right?

Well I'll be honest with you, I don't care whether he thinks it's all one and Buddhism has got it right and we are all reincarnated souls on some trip to Nirvana. If we come to enlightenment then we will cease to be reincarnated again and it will all be over.

The truth is in my gift and I'll share it will all you who seek the truth. When you die, you die

[LumierexCosmic]

Oh my my he's intelligent as well as sexy.

I've been gone on him since I'm a kid....he has a charisma that just knocks you out!

Give me a call Harry, will you? ; )xox

[xsivstress]

it'll Rain Harry, it'll Rain,,