If you're willing to take the humiliation of sticking your head above the crowd, maybe it's, you know, the pleasure will be worth the pain.

For 'Rocky II,' I got a torn pectoral muscle, I got all beat up inside, I had to have an operation to splice things back together.

There aren't a lot of opportunities for that rite of passage that makes you a man. War is one of them, and violent sports are another.

If you're gonna be a failure, at least be one at something you enjoy.

Movies are a collective art. Art by proxy.

Dreams cost nothing. They are free. The hard part is just keeping them going.

I want to turn my attention to movies about love relationships. Exploring the female psyche - there ought to be some interesting discoveries there. Love stories. If you do it right, people want to hear romantic dialog.