You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.

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My Father was a great boxer, and I grew up watching the fights, live and on TV too.

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I've always wanted to do a boxing movie.

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I think it's fair to say I've always been a boxing fan.

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Well, we're in show business, and I have been making a living in this business a long time and inevitably it means taking what it is that you've done and hopefully you're showing it to a lot of people who like it.

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I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.

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What's not perceived to be an A movie anymore, is often subject matter that would have been thought of as a B movie many years ago.

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As far as I'm concerned, all my movies could be westerns, so this is good stuff.

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Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor.

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