I think I'm a much better painter than an actor.

Now it really is, believe it or not, 90% of the films are green lit, not by the studio heads, but by the marketing department.

People asked if I could have played the Terminator. Are you kidding? Not a chance, I never could have played the Terminator.

If you don't have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.

I really have very little aspirations about acting because I think that probably the best things have come and gone. I would like to focus on writing and directing. I love writing and directing even though writing can be incredibly painful and lonely. I get great satisfaction from doing it.

You have to have an almost boundless reservoir of energy and interest to enter politics because quite often it's thankless and fruitless and you can't accomplish much.

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