I just don't want to do a movie because it paid me a lot of money.

First of all, you look at Rocky films now, and if that isn't a cartoon series there isn't any cartoon series. I mean there's no way anybody is going to take that amount of punishment in fifteen rounds.

This directing thing just sort of fell my way and landed in my lap.

Juan Hernandez was an actor out of New York, but what made Juan so great and what made Omar so great was that they both already knew how to box, so we didn't have to take them into a gym and teach them how to throw a left jab.

I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries.

I don't even know if I can call myself a director.

Because I killed a guy in real life, and because my character kills a guy onstage, they said I could never do anything this great again. I resented that.