I don’t mind telling a dark side.
I don’t really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.
You should just evaluate the work and make your judgments accordingly. That’s the way you do it in life and every other subject.
I’ve taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them.
You have to be realistic about where you are in life and enjoy it.
Our modern society – especially in the West, and especially now – reveres youth.
Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.
I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.
If you’re afraid to take risks in anything in life, it’s just boredom.
You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.
Actors know what actors are insecure about – and they’re all insecure.
My whole life has been one big improvisation.
There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul.
Politicians have to make unpopular decisions. Schwarzenegger is going to understand the nature of his job. I wish him good luck, he’s going to need it. It’s going to be difficult for him.
Every movie I make teaches me something. That’s why I keep making them.
Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you’re changing, emotionally as well as physically?
When you’re young, you’re very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.
When you’re making a film you start living with it, and I find myself sitting down and figuring out a sound or melody that would go with a film, or a particular period. It’s not brain surgery, you just kind of feel it along.
My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest – and everybody agreed rugby was. It’s a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.
There are two kinds of people in this world. ‘I’ people and ‘we’ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‘we’ person.