It's great the way the old-time directors used to manipulate the hell out of you. You see someone dying and all of a sudden a ghost would come out and they go walking hand in hand up the stairway.

You've got to show your soul otherwise you're just a piece of equipment.

Through failure, I found different ways to reverse my problems and get into the mainstream of Hollywood.

With writing, I think you have to be honest with yourself. I have a certain kind of writing; that is, I like to really embellish the human spirit. You have to write about something you have a feel for.

Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but the loyalty never fades.

Painting is as close as a person can get to actually capturing the heat of the moment.

I wish I had thought of Velcro muscles myself. I didn't have to go to the gym for all those years, all the hours wedded to the iron game, as we call it.