When life hits you pretty hard, you can go into a dark corner.

I love being so tight on people in close-ups that the veins in their eyes look like the Mississippi River.

I'm not just painting for painting's sake. I want to be truthful.

I keep trying to tell people. I said, at 40, 45, you're at that crossroads. You really are there. And it's not like you can have gain without pain, but this is it. The days are - like when I wrote this whole thing about, in the beginning of my first magazine. I said, "If you live to be 75 years old, that's 3,900 weekends. That's it."

For 'Rocky II,' I got a torn pectoral muscle, I got all beat up inside, I had to have an operation to splice things back together.

I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.

If you look back at life, I bet you will regret about 80% of your actions. But life consists of all mistakes.