I got my first job as a card-carrying actor in New York in 1967. Before that, I was a very desperate wannabe.

People say it's a movie about boxing, but... I don't agree at all. I don't think it's a movie about boxing. Boxing is like a platform. It's just a stage where this is played out.

I feel fine, I don't care who the director is. All you have to do is know what your doing - all of us - everybody in the business - that's all you ask anyone - you know your job, I know mine, let's go do it.

Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can't see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness.

The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.

The best way to confront, or deal with, technological innovation is to keep moving technologically.

Someone's always going to come down on the side of the fence.