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

Dreams cost nothing. They are free. The hard part is just keeping them going.

Art is the ability to communicate through an intermediary and to convey one's feelings through an isolated object. It's inspiration and incubation. Putting my subjective feelings into an objective form and then on to you for a subjective interpretation.

I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going.

That's the hardest thing about doing sequels - you've lost the element of surprise.

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

Whenever I don't get injured, the film is a dud. I didn't bleed on 'Rhinestone.' I didn't bleed on 'Stop! Or My Mom will Shoot.'