Sometimes when I don't want to cry, I cry. And when I want to I can't. It's subconscious. Like sexual performance.

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

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

The biggest and most interesting crisis in the world is the human crisis, and it never gets boring. It goes back to Shakespeare. You don't need a gimmick; it's just man against man and their intolerance of each other.

Once I stopped trying to always do everything my way, and once I asked for God's help, things have truly gone a different direction.

Artists die twice. First creatively. Then physically. The second one is the easiest.

There aren't a lot of opportunities for that rite of passage that makes you a man. War is one of them, and violent sports are another.