My life has always been chaotic. From the time I got dressed in the back of a deflated, flat-tired, fish-smelling station wagon for Rocky. It's always been do it yourself, kind of like paper-clip it together.

If you express yourself too much, you're considered weak.

Ya gotta do what ya gotta do.

Nothing's harder than writing. There's no comparison. With directing, you can bounce a lot of ideas around. There's tremendous support - you've got editors and sound mixers. With writing, it's all you, and it's just crippling when people tear up your pages.

On the sequel, you've lost the element of surprise. Usually, on the first one you may not go very, very deep into character; the second one you start to explore the character a bit more.

People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight.

When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going to see what you're really made of.