I loved 'Rocky' and 'Rambo', and am very proud of them.

It's great the way the old-time directors used to manipulate the hell out of you. You see someone dying and all of a sudden a ghost would come out and they go walking hand in hand up the stairway.

You cannot train yourself. I feel the same way about Christianity and about what the church is: The church is the gym of the soul.

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

If I'd made it right away as an actor, I would've stopped at a certain level and stayed there, probably as a character actor.

I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

Making a movie is the same as an orchestra; it's moving all the different instruments and the sounds, the kinetic and the auditory and the visual all together. I'm probably the trombone.