If I'd succeeded right away at acting I wouldn't have sought out writing.

Lighting can bring out certain contours in the body, in the face, in the eyes, that otherwise flat lighting couldn't.

Eventually writing became more interesting to me than acting.

I was an insecure kid. Once I saw 'Hercules' with Steve Reeves, it completely changed my life. If I had never gone to that film, I wouldn't be here today.

I love art more than anything in the world except for my family.

At the very end, the one person who Rambo should kill, he doesn't kill. He lets it live. Because you can't kill that kind of hypocritical bureaucracy. It goes on forever.

I used to tweet, but it's an act of futility. You're not really making any impact, and if you find yourself in a mood when you wanna be a bit controversial and you post something, you suddenly realise, 'Oh my God!' because you've opened yourself up to a bunch of criticism from strangers.