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

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 get a great high from writing.

I don't much like looking back.

[In the 1960s]...you could take LSD but you couldn't wear a pantsuit.

I don't believe there are devils enough in hell to pull a boy out of the arms of a godly mother.

Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words. If noble actions are the substance of life, good sayings are its ornament and guide.

The young remember most deeply.... When we are old and failing, it is the memories of childhood which can be summoned most clearly.

The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence.

I want to be known as a great businessman.

I gave myself an objective, to be the second president from Correze and finally to be the successor to Francois Mitterrand.

Luis Suarez is a victim of his own make-up

There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested.

There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve the eighteenth-century ideal of humane civilized life.