I had a great mother, and I'm very comfortable with that maternal element.

I boxed through college and I played college level football. I was a linebacker.

The world is a dangerous, unstable place and sometimes there are casualties and struggles for power.

I grew up with a very quick temper, and the language of violence is a language that I'm very familiar and comfortable with.

You look at your past and things that are unresolved and figure out what you need to do to move forward and fill a role with your family and in your community.

Fights take a long time to shoot.

I just think that, at the end of the day, you needed the catharsis of revelation.

How do you fight the stagnation of monogamy and the monotony of time together?

Within the stability of a family struggle, when there's less chaos, you can have the most soul-searching and the most digging to find out what and who you really are.

I bake my daughter cupcakes for her school. I'm very hands-on.

If you give a scene enough room to breathe, actors will hopefully find those magical moments.

To fully encapsulate my creativity, I read to inhale, write to exhale. The whole process helps me breathe story.

Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.

The problem with being an author in this modern world is such: computers break often

When a man losses faith he betrays a hero

I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in England that will bring me off for that.

We must make a journey around the world to see if a back door has perhaps been left open.

The less literate are the first to fail and drop out of school.

If you try to make such projects, unseen by others, as perfect as any human could, you'll develop skills that other professionals don't have.

Only hire people you want to have dinner with.