Most of the films I myself like don't do very well. Every director, he has a choice, whether to go for subtlety and try to articulate every minute detail, or to go for the broad strokes and hope that the people will fill in between the lines. I tend to go for the broader strokes.

If you think people are inherently good, you get rid of the police for 24 hours - see what happens.

I believe an artist dies twice. The first time, it's just terrible - I've been there when the phone isn't ringing for years.

Early on everyone should do, every time they do a big film, they should do a little film. It really does keep you grounded.

You have to be really loyal to the people that supported you when you were coming up.

Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision.

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.