Action film is really easy to do, you just get in a car and smash through things and it's called action. The real key is what happens between the action when it's quiet. Loud is easy. Quiet, real hard.

Your spiritual sense will make you either a winner or a loser.

No one will hit you harder than life itself. It doesn't matter how hard you hit back. It's about how much you can take, and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward. That's how you win.

At the very end, the one person who Rambo should kill, he doesn't kill. He lets it live. Because you can't kill that kind of hypocritical bureaucracy. It goes on forever.

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush.

No one's life is totally morbid. Even on a subtle scale there's little flashes of enlightenment and of happiness and joy.