Most of the films I myself like don't do very well. Every director, he has a choice, whether to go for subtlety and try to articulate every minute detail, or to go for the broad strokes and hope that the people will fill in between the lines. I tend to go for the broader strokes.

Certain characters, mostly heroes, have to be the straight silent type; that is part of the make-up.

Now it really is, believe it or not, 90% of the films are green lit, not by the studio heads, but by the marketing department.

I've been involved in something which was chaotic and insane. All I can say now is that I am, and intend to stay, a single man.

When you are young, you often think that the world spins around you. You think you can do anything, can take the world on your shoulders.

I think people of all occupations, whether it's the camera - puller or the man who's doing the catering, they can identify with Rambo's frustrations, with the veteran's frustrations.

It's great the way the old-time directors used to manipulate the hell out of you. You see someone dying and all of a sudden a ghost would come out and they go walking hand in hand up the stairway.