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

Characters I've played, they used to impact my paintings, like 80 percent of the time, and especially when I was doing an action film.

Movies are a whole different ball-game, now. It's much more of a business - very scientific.

If you come into my house, I'm going to fight much more viciously to get you out than if we were on a neutral piece of land.

It took me a long time to be convinced that marriage was right for me because I've come from a long line of broken marriages. My parents divorced, and I had two broken marriages myself.

Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.

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.