It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars.

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.

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.

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

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

I grew up in a gym in Miami, the one where Muhammad Ali trained. I had 142 amateur fights and lost three.

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."