Quotes About Evolution

Seven years is a long time, and seven years of fighting the best guys in the best organization in the world, the biggest organization in the world, it hardens you. You don't stay seven years without evolving. It doesn't happen.

My last year of football I started having a couple of MMA fights, and bringing the weight down. It started in the pre-season of football, just to keep fit, and I did really well.

I used to get into a lot of fights.

Yes, I came into this sport as just a grappler, but the more I learn, the more it shines in my fights.

I had always considered myself a martial artist who fights rather than a fighter who learned martial arts - although I probably flowed between those two categories over the years.

After 99 fights, I don't fight for the passion of boxing.

Just when you think you've got your kids figured out, they change on you. For somebody who's controlling, you can't control it. Of course, I don't think I'm controlling, but that's what I've been told!

I like to fail. I have had so many failures and each time I have failed, I have figured out how to grow.

I confess that, like public figures from bygone days or an entertainer that hadn't been heard from in eons, I didn't know AIM, as we all called it, still existed at all.

I think I'm still figuring out how to be a little less selfish.

Just figuring it out for 30 years - 30 years... I think I'm ready now to expand - to grow.

I am private because I'm still figuring things out. I'm young! I'm making it up as I go!

I love to watch human beings figuring out their limitations.

When you give something up, you need to fill the space where it used to be, and you understand the landscape in yourself a bit more.

One can be emptied out and be filled up.

The film business has changed so dramatically from when I started.

In many ways the film business is behind what's going on culturally. We are a world that is becoming more diverse and there's no going back.

My father is the son of a farmer so its a little difficult for me to make him understand the fashion and the film industry.

There was a time when people were afraid that film music would totally displace classical music.

Film music, over the years, has taken from everybody.

When I started my professional rugby career, in 2002, there was one guy filming training if you were lucky.

Filming 'The Drew,' thinking a lot about story arcs and all that stuff, I thought about how my career ended. I decided I wanted to try to rewrite that.

As I continue to evolve as a filmmaker, I'm going to continue to do different stuff.

I came out of 'Che' a different filmmaker.