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.

When boxers are in the ring, they're simple. It's when the fight is over, that's when the other fight, the real fight, begins. That's the problem.

To me, the most perfect screenplay ever written will be one word, when you finally reduce it down to that. Until then, writing will be an imperfect form of communication.

When I was a kid, my mother used to feed me mashed-potato sandwiches, brussel sprout sandwiches; my brain cells were starving from lack of food. I'll eat anything. I'll eat dirt.

If you look back at life, I bet you will regret about 80% of your actions. But life consists of all mistakes.

Certain characters, mostly heroes, have to be the straight silent type; that is part of the make-up.

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