Action movies to me are dramas with recognizable human beings that are in extraordinary situations.

I tend not to look back. It's confusing.

I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.

Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor.

Naturally we need black men to give this movie serious credibility.

I've always wanted to do a boxing movie.

Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall.

You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.

I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.

I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.

I get a great high from writing.

As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.

Human cultures construct an enormous variety of environments through language, technology, and institutions. We are born in and die in these systems of symbols and imagination.

I'm a character and a sports entertainer and a wrestler, but I'm also a father and a husband and a provider.

I've always been baffled by critics of the CIA, who are horrified that it does illegal things. That is the purpose of an intelligence service: to perform illegal acts.

We live in a world that is crying out for better leadership.

Heartbeat, why do you skip when my baby's lips meet mine?

Life should imitate romance literature far more often.

I only have one note, let's be honest. But I'll play a different version of that one note.

Whenever the word is rightly preached, and attentively heard, it never fails to bring forth fruit.

In a knowledge-driven economy, talk is real work.