I try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writing on the page to combine all the different elements of communication.

You have to grab life by the throat and squeeze before it grabs you by your neck and breaks it. Own your destiny.

I've been involved in something which was chaotic and insane. All I can say now is that I am, and intend to stay, a single man.

Nothing's harder than writing. There's no comparison. With directing, you can bounce a lot of ideas around. There's tremendous support - you've got editors and sound mixers. With writing, it's all you, and it's just crippling when people tear up your pages.

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

The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush.

I thought marriage was tough. Golf's like going over Niagara Falls in a barrel! It's a psychological game that gets into your blood.