It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.

You can't write about history without writing about politics at some point. History is about movements of people. 'What is criminality and what is government' is a theme that runs through every history.

Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.

You got an all-out prize fight, you wait 'til the fight's over, one guy's left standing and that's how you know who's won.

When I started out I was a failed actor.

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.

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.