If I'd made it right away as an actor, I would've stopped at a certain level and stayed there, probably as a character actor.

Movies are a collective art. Art by proxy.

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.

Usually whenever you're scared of something, do it. If you're not afraid of it, don't do it.

The one thing in my films, I only kill people who need to be killed, or killers killing killers. And I believe that the violence is very justifiable.

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

I think there's something about being a neophyte that's refreshing and hard to duplicate; it brings about real innovation. Innovation usually comes about through blind ignorance.