This directing thing just sort of fell my way and landed in my lap.

Acting is the easiest money you'll ever make in your life, and directing is probably the hardest money.

I just don't want to do a movie because it paid me a lot of money.

The thing is, the studio then forget that you're an actor and that you can do other things, and so since they pay you for that, they don't want you to do anything else.

What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an ounce of your essence on that stage,... Otherwise it was impossible.

First of all, you look at Rocky films now, and if that isn't a cartoon series there isn't any cartoon series. I mean there's no way anybody is going to take that amount of punishment in fifteen rounds.