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.

Art is the ability to communicate through an intermediary and to convey one's feelings through an isolated object. It's inspiration and incubation. Putting my subjective feelings into an objective form and then on to you for a subjective interpretation.

When I'm doing a movie, I eat the same thing every day. For lunch, it's tuna salad or chicken salad and cole slaw. That's it. For dinner it's either veal and rice, fish and rice or steak and rice. It gets boring; boy, does it get boring.

I have made a lot of career mistakes, a lot and I have made a lot of personal ones too!

I wish my daughters would box. I'm so worried about the guys coming up to them. I would love them to be able to smack a guy right off a bar stool.

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

Now it really is, believe it or not, 90% of the films are green lit, not by the studio heads, but by the marketing department.