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.

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

Training and working in Philadelphia is a very unusual situation because that city does believe that Rocky is real. No one calls me Sylvester, it's Rocky.

I think there comes a time when you realize that you need God in your life, God's Word, and the spiritual guidance that only He can give.

Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.

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.

We follow a certain pattern, a maze, if you will, every day, tracing our steps into certain districts and neighborhoods and back home. So it's easy for people to relate to clichés. That's why comedy routines are based on mutual experiences of clichés.