I was an insecure kid. Once I saw 'Hercules' with Steve Reeves, it completely changed my life. If I had never gone to that film, I wouldn't be here today.

You cannot train yourself. I feel the same way about Christianity and about what the church is: The church is the gym of the soul.

No one's life is totally morbid. Even on a subtle scale there's little flashes of enlightenment and of happiness and joy.

I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.

The trouble with remakes is that people fall in love with the original. It's like peanut butter. If you try to change the taste of peanut butter, you're in trouble.

There's a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.

I try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writing on the page to combine all the different elements of communication.