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

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.

If you look at people that have survived crashing in the mountains and lived up in the snow for 40 days - it's possible to do extraordinary feats.

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.

Without love, loyalty, desires, passion, courage, dignities, faith, beliefs and all the other ingredients that go into making the human soul something so elevated that only God knows its limits, we are only shells bobbing aimlessly in a calm sea of mediocrity. ...And if you can figure that out, please write and explain it to me because you're a better man than I am.

All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.

Movies are a whole different ball-game, now. It's much more of a business - very scientific.