When I saw 'Hercules,' my mind just exploded because I was extremely thin; I was insecure. I literally ran out of the theatre and started lifting things, anything I could think of - milk crates. I'm still lifting things. It changed my life.

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going to see what you're really made of.

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.

I've always said that the artist dies twice. And the first death is the hardest which is the career death, the creative death. The physical death is an inevitability.

Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that's a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It's how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting.

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.