No one will hit you harder than life itself. It doesn't matter how hard you hit back. It's about how much you can take, and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward. That's how you win.

Boxing is a great exercise ... as long as you can yell "cut" whenever you want to.

You've got to show your soul otherwise you're just a piece of equipment.

I've had a lot of operations. I'm kind of like Franken-actor.

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.

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

The one thing in my films, I only kill people who need to be killed, or killers killing killers. And I believe that the violence is very justifiable.