There's show and there's business. Business is a whole other beat.

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.

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

Defeat anger, stop using it as a shield against truth, and you will find the compassion you need to forgive the people you love.

You shouldn’t have to pretend to be as excited as I am just to make me happy. If it comes to that, you shouldn’t have to pretend to be anything around me. Friends should be real with each other

The mind is its own place and in itself Can make a heaven of hell a hell of heaven.

My father was absent and he was a hero to me.

Underhand euphemism are used, not so much to conceal offence and to deliberately disguise a topic and deceive

Is a diamond less valuable because it is covered with mud? God sees the changeless beauty of our souls. He knows we are not our mistakes.

I can't even remember how many times I tried to kill myself

The real trick in life is to turn hindsight into foresight that reveals insight.

It is a government by the corporations, for the corporations.

Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking occupants.