I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was coming back to the firehouse, after a day of fighting fires, and still having to put in an eight-hour day writing.

Mixed martial arts was invented by Brazilians, whose families had been trained by the Japanese. Those Brazilians came to the U.S., where their invention was bought out, gussied up and presented to the world, which found it good.

The essence of jiu-jitsu is philosophy.

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.

I tend to write a lot, which I think is the secret to being prolific.

My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.

I hate the computer. I hate their spell-check. I won't ever do e-mail.