American - Actor | January 30, 1951 -
Because I killed a guy in real life, and because my character kills a guy onstage, they said I could never do anything this great again. I resented that.
Charles S. Dutton
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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.
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And like everybody else, I like the Rocky movies, but if you look at them again you can see all the misses, but the intensity of it, but that wasn't what this is.
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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.
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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.
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I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries.
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This directing thing just sort of fell my way and landed in my lap.
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I don't even know if I can call myself a director.
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I didn't go to film school, I went to acting school.
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Acting is the easiest money you'll ever make in your life, and directing is probably the hardest money.
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I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director.
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I just don't want to do a movie because it paid me a lot of money.
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