I get a call, and it's Howard Bingham, and he's got the champ on the line.Muhammad Ali didn't remember me from being a kid, but he was going, "Yeah, you're in bed, and you want your mama with you . . ." It really helped so much. He spent 15 or 20 minutes on the phone with me. That's a memory that I'll always cherish.

I have a really good relationship with a lot of designers. I like Gaultier, Billionaire and Cavalli.

Usually if you read a screenplay, no matter who's writing it, the bad guy is always written as a one-dimensional bad guy.

I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of abandonment and shame.

Some of your worst gangsters are guys who were very low-key.

I couldn't direct traffic. It's hard enough just acting.

Wrestlers are all pretty busted-up by the ends of their careers.