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 didn't go to film school, I went to acting school.

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

And like everybody else, I like the Rocky movies, but if you look at them again you can see all the misses, but the intensity of it, but that wasn't what this is.

I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director.

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.

Acting is the easiest money you'll ever make in your life, and directing is probably the hardest money.