I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. The actual boxing usually sucks

I believe that every innovative thought comes from a creative mindset....A creative mindset is what drives our world, and art is the base of that.

If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race.

People are realizing that color has no bearing on what's known as brotherhood

A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.

I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?

Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.

I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs.

It's natural for any actor that segues into directing to be an actor's director. You know how to relate to the actors.

That word, fan, has always kind of bothered me

Writing is the beast unto itself.

Even when the world throws it worst and then turns in its back, there is still always hope

The eye is the jewel of the body.

Even with protection, even with death threats, I can publish, I can travel and I can live the life that I want and not the one my parents want or some imam somewhere thinks I should live.

It is impossible to reduce, or, at least, to hold a distant country against the wishes and efforts of its inhabitants.

Children are wise in a funny kind of way. They haven't developed so many vested interests of self. There is a wisdom, a lack of self-consciousness, that is innocence.

When the true criminals are running around free, the only honorable place for a decent human being is in prisons.

Most fishermen swiftly learn that it's a pretty good rule never to show a favorite spot to any fisherman you wouldn't trust with your wife.

It's a good thing to feel like you have to prove something

Growing up at my grandmother's table, she always had rice. She might do something as exotic as potatoes or spaghetti, but there was still always rice, just in case you needed a little rice fix.

It's a natural tendency of mine to not even listen to lyrics.