I Feel Profoundly Blessed. I Feel It's

That's The Most Beautiful Thing That I Like About Boxing: You Can Take A Punch. The Biggest Thing About Taking A Punch Is Your Ego Reacts And There's No Better Spiritual Lesson Than Trying To Not Pay Attention To Your Ego's Reaction.

I'm Always Looking For A Way To Surprise Audiences. That's, I Feel, My Job As A Director. I Felt That Amy Adams Playing A Tough Woman In 'the Fighter' Was A Surprise. People Saw Her As A Princess.

In Order To Reinvent Yourself, You Have To Dig Deep And Look At Yourself. I'd Lost My Way Creatively, And I Was Humbled, And So I Think I Got Really Basic About Wanting To Depict People In The Ways That I Find Them Amazing And Funny And Emotional And That I Can Relate To And Do From An Instinctive, Gut Place. People Trying To Survive ... That's What All My Movies Are About.

You Can't Force A Movie To Happen. Movies Happen When They're Supposed To Happen. Everything Happens In God's Time. I Really Believe That.

A Thousand Years Ago, Scientists Who Wondered About Consciousness And The Nature Of Reality Were Burned At The Stake. We Still Haven't Recovered From That And It's Left Us With A Culture That No Longer Investigates Consciousness, Except On The Fringes.