Hollywood's famous for putting you in a box.

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."

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

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

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.

A lot of the stuff I am now seeing is edgy, raw kinda material.

I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that.