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.

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.

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.

It's funny, don't you think, how time seems to do a lot of things? It flies, it tells, and worst of all, it runs out.

You won't reach anywhere... if you lie!

I think that dating other musicians can be complicated at times. Especially when they think highly of themselves.

Because of the Republicans, I'm not ashamed of being an American. I'm embarrassed!

The greatest progress in life is when you know your limitations, and then you have the courage to drop them.

I look most like myself... when I'm wearing my black, nerdy engineering glasses.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee. -Jonathan

I'm just thinking too fast-- much too fast.

You aren't exactly the best judge of what is or isn't dangerous.

The truth has a ring of its own. You learn in time to identify it.