Women are much stronger than men. When a woman says enough is enough, which means enough is enough. Man will always lie at her feet in the hope of return. I was lying. And somehow happy.

When I did Sean Penn’s movie, I think I was living in, like, a $500-a-month room, and someone called me up or bumped into me and asked me if I’d come up to work for a day. That sort of got me going a little bit. But it wasn’t until Sin City [2005] that I kind of got back into the game.

People ask me about that all the time. They say, "Did you ever think of directing?" And I say, "It's completely out of the question."

I wanted to change my name to Romeo Florentino. Romeo Florentino - that's a good fighter's name.

Boxers are very isolated - or isolated within their own camps.

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.

I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.