I wanted to show I had balls at age 60.

I made some truly awful movies. 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes.

I try to eliminate as much dialogue as possible, and I guess Rambo is my really best experiment with how to eliminate dialogue.

There are endless exercises for arms, but the basics are best-chinups and pushups.

To be really artful, though, you have to be subjective and so singular.

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.

If I just know in my gut that a film is going to work, I'll fight to the death over it, and I convince myself. When a movie is purely a money job, the film doesn't have the same sort of intensity, and the audience almost senses it, at least that's the way I perceive it. So, yeah, the idea is to do something that you truly, truly believe in.