Crossfire Hurricane (2012)

Charlie Watts: Self

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• Mick Jagger, Himself : [referring to Altamont]  The Hell's Angels were the people doing the security. So, you know, I thought that's the way they do things in San Francisco. You know, it was a very hippy-dippy thing.

  Charlie Watts, Himself : Except, these were actual, proper, Hell's Angels. It was a bit like asking the Nazi Party to sort out the fun at the auditorium.

  Keith Richards, Himself : When I got a bad vibe about it, when I saw the condition of the Angels. Now, I can tell these guys are on acid and ripple wine. And already in the early afternoon, they're startin' to get antsy. These guys are out there just lookin' for trouble. Now, I went "Uh-oh. This'll get ugly tonight." And it did.

• Mick Jagger, Himself : [referring to Altamont]  We were scared. I mean it was scary. And these people were crazy and they were like standing next to you and we didn't know how to control it, stop it. It was completely out of our control. It was just a nightmare.

  Keith Richards, Himself : Everybody was fuckin' scared, man. I mean, I'm sure it was far more frightening for the people in the audience than it was for us.

  Charlie Watts, Himself : What we should have done was just closed shop and gone home. But, you couldn't. You got 300,000 people out there that had come, you know.

  Keith Richards, Himself : It's a - It's a hard line to call, you know. I mean, if we'd a walked off, I think there'd a been a riot. So, I just did the best I fuckin' could, under a bad circumstances, you know.

  Mick Jagger, Himself : It was just realizing that you were out of control. The whole thing was out of control. If you were in any kind of arena or theater, you can just leave, you know, off stage. There wasn't - you were very aware you were, sort of, surrounded; so, you were very vulnerable too - so, that was the feeling. That's why you shouldn't have been in this situation.

  Keith Richards, Himself : And then, some bastard gets killed, you know.

• Mick Jagger, Himself : It just becomes disorganized. You got some recording engineers strung out on heroin. You know, because they all want to be strung out on heroin because they think its the thing to do. When it isn't the thing to do for a recording engineer, I can assure you.

  Charlie Watts, Himself : I thought it was quite amusing the lot of it. People sort of - they hang around Keith and they think they're Keith! It's like, it's ridiculous.

• Brett Morgen, Himself : What is a Rolling Stone?

  Charlie Watts, Himself : What is a Rolling Stone? It's someone that is not settled. Like a pirate, a gypsy. Someone who likes to travel, voyage, an adventurer.