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.

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 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

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.

'Nothing can make death easier, ' Cala said, 'but silence can make it harder.' 'Speaking helps not, ' Maia said.

When you work seven days a week fourteen hours a day you get lucky.

Pondering must turn out to be your cash asset, regardless of whichever ups and downs you occur throughout in the everyday living.

We have lost contact with man's natural desire for the exalted, for a concern with our relation to absolute emotions.

I’m a Bad Test Taker…you mean you’re stupid?

I don't care about vacations. I go away and I come back real quick because I like my work. I really like my work to consume me.

There can be little doubt that in many ways the story of bridge building is the story of civilisation. By it we can readily measure an important part of a people's progress.

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.

He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody.

My dad had even hired an accompanist to play for me on a piano. But he had never pushed me to music because I don't think he wanted me to be hurt as much as he was if it didn't work.