If there's magic in boxing, it's the magic of fighting battles beyond endurance, beyond cracked ribs, ruptured kidneys and detached retinas. It's the magic of risking everything for a dream that nobody sees but you.

As soon as you think you know Clint Eastwood, you don't know Clint Eastwood.

The hope is what America represents to the world and has always represented - the hope for a better life and a better world. We have a duty to protect and support that hope with not just our words, but with our deeds.

We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.

There's something that's so basically corrupt about any system in which a good and fair profit is not enough. There has to be more, every year, every quarter, because your stock price has to rise.

When we're threatened, it's very easy to appeal to our basic natures.

I try not to think of actors as I'm writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things they've already done.