Once I stopped trying to always do everything my way, and once I asked for God's help, things have truly gone a different direction.

Rocky is a very predictable movie. The ending is a foregone conclusion.

Action film is really easy to do, you just get in a car and smash through things and it's called action. The real key is what happens between the action when it's quiet. Loud is easy. Quiet, real hard.

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.

I'm astounded by people who take eighteen years to write something. That's how long it took that guy to write Madame Bovary, and was that ever on the best-seller list?

I feel that America is like a child that grew up so strong and so fast and so tall that it became self-conscious about its size and started to stoop over so as not to offend anyone.

The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush.