I get a great high from writing.

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 don't much like looking back.

Fear is the poison that erodes resolve. And fear is not without a killer of its own. Hope.

Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.

There is no possibility of failure because you only control your actions and they only influence the probable evolution of your life over stochastic future paths. There is no failure, only feedback.

England is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics.

Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients

You know your gut instincts are spot on about a person when you can also detect a water source in the soil beneath them.

When I awake Yesterday is far away When I awake I don't recall your name, my only friend.

Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.

The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth, Life's paradise, great princess, the soul's quiet, Sinews of concord, earthly immortality, Eternity of pleasures.

Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.