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

I know I can't play funny roles in movies. I tried, and it didn't work.

I watch a lot of news, and I watch musical shows because I think the music of the young people is really their news reports. They let you know how their country is going through their eyes, and about their experiences in the everyday shock of growing up.

Don't discuss your dreams. Pursue them!

What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct things that will have enduring qualities, and won't just be ephemeral flashes in the pan.

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

When I was a kid, my mother used to feed me mashed-potato sandwiches, brussel sprout sandwiches; my brain cells were starving from lack of food. I'll eat anything. I'll eat dirt.