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.

I don't much like looking back.

Prayer is the breath of life.

Take care-there is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination.

I'm the luckiest man in the world - performing 500 shows a year and loving what I do - illusion IS my day to day life.

though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.

Positive thinkers get positive results because they are not afraid of problems.

Our content carries the Forbes name, and our whole mantra is to put authoritative journalism at the center of the social media experience.

Every time they have tried to cut appropriations, they get a wakeup call.

It's like that where these little anecdotes come through, and I guess that's what I like about books like that [He Stopped Loving Her Today]. Fiction now is so experiential.

no one dies happy, you can only die well