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

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

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.

I don't much like looking back.

Let us feel love, in the sight of our foes.Let our hearts melt, of the sight of hungry ones.Let us sing the music of forgiveness, the melody of love.

Do not make promises when you are happy, either way never make decisions when you are angry. Stay calm.

If You find yourself in a hole

Iverson glanced down at my white-knuckled grip, then at my eyes. A hint of a smile more subtle than a single flick of snow crossed his face, and his eyes nodded approval.

I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.

In New York, unlike Holland, there are newspaper stands on every corner. That was a big headline all over the city.

You talk as long as you are listened to.

Robert wondered if any of Harvard's revered Egyptologists had ever knocked on the door of a pyramid and expected an answer.

I'm not against women. I'm not against men. I just write about me telling my side of how I would say something.

If it were not for a goodly supply of rumors, half true and half false, what would the gossips do?