My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.
This directing thing just sort of fell my way and landed in my lap.
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.
You're 5 feet nothing, a hundred and nothing.
Juan Hernandez was an actor out of New York, but what made Juan so great and what made Omar so great was that they both already knew how to box, so we didn't have to take them into a gym and teach them how to throw a left jab.
I just don't want to do a movie because it paid me a lot of money.
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
Do certain events in our lives leave a permanent mark, freezing a piece of us in time, and that becomes a touchstone that we measure the rest of our lives against?
Everything that is,casts a shadow
When your art fails, make better art.