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.

Age is a state of old mind. It gets to a point where if you get old enough, you forget how old you are, and that's the best thing. And then you walk around kind of like in a fog.

Whenever I don't get injured, the film is a dud. I didn't bleed on 'Rhinestone.' I didn't bleed on 'Stop! Or My Mom will Shoot.'

To be really artful, though, you have to be subjective and so singular.

If I'd made it right away as an actor, I would've stopped at a certain level and stayed there, probably as a character actor.

Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.

I realized, the older I get, the more difficult life becomes. It's not easier, it's more difficult.