Children are the first thing I see in the morning and the last thing I see at night. It hurts me to be away from them for a few hours. It really does. I love them and they're girls, so they know how to push my buttons. But I've learned a lot and I have to thank my wife for that.

People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight.

People asked if I could have played the Terminator. Are you kidding? Not a chance, I never could have played the Terminator.

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

I've always said that the artist dies twice. And the first death is the hardest which is the career death, the creative death. The physical death is an inevitability.

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.

Action film is really easy to do, you just get in a car and smash through things and it's called action. The real key is what happens between the action when it's quiet. Loud is easy. Quiet, real hard.