I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life. If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I'm an artist, I hate saying that.

We live in a world where the more you're working, the more things you do. It's a workaday world.

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.

I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it, I destroy it because it's no longer coming from my unconscious.

Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.

If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it's just great fodder for you. It's wonderful source stuff that we die for.

They say we die twice - once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.