You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.

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.

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.

What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life.

Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides.

A lifetime had to be crafted, just like anything else, she thought, it had to be moulded and beaten and burnished in order to get the most out of it.

We must have infinite faith in each other.

For food to be romantic, it should be light. Too many times people plan a romantic meal, and the food is too heavy.

Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want.

I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.

They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?

Innovation is everything. When you're on the forefront, you can see what the next innovation needs to be. When you're behind, you have to spend your energy catching up.

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