The church is the gym of the soul.

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 wanted to show I had balls at age 60.

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

Clichés are what good writing is all about. Because our lives are basically clichés.

On the sequel, you've lost the element of surprise. Usually, on the first one you may not go very, very deep into character; the second one you start to explore the character a bit more.

What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct things that will have enduring qualities, and won't just be ephemeral flashes in the pan.