Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived.

I have tons of regrets, but I think that's one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their angst, their regret, comes the best from artists, painters and writers.

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.

Rocky is a very predictable movie. The ending is a foregone conclusion.

I love being so tight on people in close-ups that the veins in their eyes look like the Mississippi River.

Don't be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there's a reaction.

I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that's a noble project.