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

Gangster is the truest friend I can ever ask for.

When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.

There is an age-old proverb that really does hold true in every area of life - in relations between nations and right down to the most subtle and sophisticated or must unstable and unsophisticated relations between lovers - and it is this: they took "kindness" for "weakness."

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

I have made a lot of career mistakes, a lot and I have made a lot of personal ones too!

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.