I think Barack Obama is an amazing man and president. His legacy is ongoing.

I believe that every innovative thought comes from a creative mindset....A creative mindset is what drives our world, and art is the base of that.

If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race.

People are realizing that color has no bearing on what's known as brotherhood

A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.

I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?

Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.

I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs.

I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. The actual boxing usually sucks

It's natural for any actor that segues into directing to be an actor's director. You know how to relate to the actors.

That word, fan, has always kind of bothered me

Art and disease proliferate via contagion, and similar conditions favor both.

That's the value of the artist... Even when they aren't aware, they're dreaming our dreams for us.

... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent.

Baptism pertains to the Church alone.

Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god.

I think there is a danger that an environmental crisis can be used in precisely the same way as the terrorist threat can be used in terms of giving up freedom.

A part of you has grown in me. And so you see, it's you and me together forever and never apart, maybe in distance, but never in heart