I've always told my son Scott the same thing: Don't rush into anything, because there's gonna be a lot of fish in the sea. You can be one of the people that's lucky enough not to become a loser two and three and four times over like people do, just by being a little more patient.

If you cast a film incorrectly, then you're going to be fighting an uphill battle.

This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.

Whatever the drama of the story is, you have to be true to it.

I think as you get older, you find you can play more things because you're moving to a different category. You play a certain thing as a younger man, playing action roles like I did. Then I moved out, and I kept trying to do different things all the time.

Buzzards got to eat, same as the worms.

When you're young, you're very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.