I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that's a noble project.

I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more jagged and pitted and filled with turns that take you into the dark recesses of your mind. It never seems to get easy.

When I'm on a location, I pick a restaurant that's close and private and eat all my meals there.

You know what I think happened? After 'Rocky,' I was almost set up in the eyes of the media to make a flop.

I have made a lot of career mistakes, a lot and I have made a lot of personal ones too!

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.

A lot of guys don't want to admit that they have a propensity for generosity and for violence.