Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

Movies are a collective art. Art by proxy.

Some actors are brilliant character guys. They submerge.

I think there's something about being a neophyte that's refreshing and hard to duplicate; it brings about real innovation. Innovation usually comes about through blind ignorance.

In the movies, I kill guys with an axe. In real life, I can't control a nine-year-old girl.

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.

I'm astounded by people who take eighteen years to write something. That's how long it took that guy to write Madame Bovary, and was that ever on the best-seller list?