In fact, every day I'll read a chapter of some art book. I don't know why. It's just a habit.

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

I believe an artist dies twice. The first time, it's just terrible - I've been there when the phone isn't ringing for years.

If you look at people that have survived crashing in the mountains and lived up in the snow for 40 days - it's possible to do extraordinary feats.

I'm not right wing, I'm not left wing. I love my country.

There is an age-old proverb that really does hold true in every area of life - in relations between nations and right down to the most subtle and sophisticated or must unstable and unsophisticated relations between lovers - and it is this: they took "kindness" for "weakness."

I was on cruise control from '85 to '95, and it was my fault. There were a lot of self-inflicted wounds, when I was not doing any original material. I wasn't directing. I wasn't writing. That's not who I am.