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

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.

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

Writing is the beast unto itself.

If only humans could die like the autumn leaves, with a splash of beauty and the promise of another season.

Marriage is hard. I'm not gonna lie.

I think it's better that life is kind of like a mystery, I think that's what drives us.

I was a different kind of kid, oversensitive and all that.

We are better pleased to see those on whom we confer benefits than those from whom we receive them.

Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done.

I see some some of these other guys, and they're wearing the hats and the jackets and saying the words and they're relating and they're picking. But there's something missing.

Riches can be stolen-not richness.

I'd say that one area where my political views have remained unchanged is that, I am opposed to the government spying on everybody.

A son ain't what a woman say. A son is what a man do.