I guess the best thing I do of all is ride. Horsemanship, I have a natural flair for it.

When you are young, you often think that the world spins around you. You think you can do anything, can take the world on your shoulders.

Today's action hero, his skills are through technology. He can fly, he can throw a bolt of lightning, he can freeze people.

When life hits you pretty hard, you can go into a dark corner.

The idea that boxing lends itself to cinema so well is because it's usually a morality play - good against evil, insecurity and triumph, fear strikes out, so the audience can really get drawn into the drama of it. Also, it was sensual and very primal. I think subliminaly we do two things - life is a fight, life is a struggle and we understand that from our early, early, early ancestors, and life is a race.

Nothing's harder than writing. There's no comparison. With directing, you can bounce a lot of ideas around. There's tremendous support - you've got editors and sound mixers. With writing, it's all you, and it's just crippling when people tear up your pages.

I know I'm incredibly unpredictable, and that's the only thing I'm sure of.