Until America, door to door, takes every handgun, this is what you're gonna have. It's pathetic. It really is pathetic. It's sad. We're living in the Dark Ages over there.

I have made a lot of career mistakes, a lot and I have made a lot of personal ones too!

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.

That's the hardest thing about doing sequels - you've lost the element of surprise.

If you come into my house, I'm going to fight much more viciously to get you out than if we were on a neutral piece of land.

I believe an artist dies twice. The first time, it's just terrible - I've been there when the phone isn't ringing for years.

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.