When you get into making movies, then the physical mundane reality of life must be presented. But in comics you can jack it up and work in shorthand.

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.

Attempt always to uncover the beauty in everyday surroundings. If you cannot find it, then be the one to create it.

Anger is a brief madness.

I don’t see any dearth of women leaders, it’s a question of what we consider a woman leader.

Happiness is not a station to arrive at but a manner of traveling.

Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them.

By the year 2025, 500 million people will die of smoking. Now, that's a Vietnam War every day for 27 years. That's the Titanic sinking every 27 minutes for 27 years.

The human soul is very much older than the human mind.

Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery.

I'm fortunately not in a situation where someone owns me.

i'm afraid to breathe in case i break the spell