Writing is the beast unto itself.

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

The realization was becoming clearer: How could she expect others to trust her with the intricacies of their lives if she was not not willing to reveal hers?

Caring about a person is like praying to a doughnut in the darkness.

I had no musical training at all.

So the guy who shot Gadhafi was wearing a Yankees cap. Did you see that? If he'd had a Boston Red Sox hat on he probably would have missed.

The media is trying to rig the election.

In first grade, I told my friends I had a third story in my house filled with jewels and lions.

Bod quite liked crows. He thought they were funny and he liked the way they helped to keep the graveyard tidy.

If people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up.

Life begins at forty, but so does arthritis, and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same person.

A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.