I believe an artist dies twice. The first time, it's just terrible - I've been there when the phone isn't ringing for years.

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

Usually whenever you're scared of something, do it. If you're not afraid of it, don't do it.

Without love, loyalty, desires, passion, courage, dignities, faith, beliefs and all the other ingredients that go into making the human soul something so elevated that only God knows its limits, we are only shells bobbing aimlessly in a calm sea of mediocrity. ...And if you can figure that out, please write and explain it to me because you're a better man than I am.

It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.

The biggest and most interesting crisis in the world is the human crisis, and it never gets boring. It goes back to Shakespeare. You don't need a gimmick; it's just man against man and their intolerance of each other.

The man who can best gets along with women, is the man who can get along without them.