I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous.

There's a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.

You have to have an almost boundless reservoir of energy and interest to enter politics because quite often it's thankless and fruitless and you can't accomplish much.

I've always said that the artist dies twice. And the first death is the hardest which is the career death, the creative death. The physical death is an inevitability.

If you look back at life, I bet you will regret about 80% of your actions. But life consists of all mistakes.

Boxing is the only sport where you have the audience coming right up to you and saying, "You Stink." And you got to deal with that. It's like being in front of the lions.

Often people going into directing want to learn as much as they possibly can about "technique." And I say the hell with that.