No one will hit you harder than life itself. It doesn't matter how hard you hit back. It's about how much you can take, and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward. That's how you win.

You know you've been around when they start to remake your own movies when you're still alive.

If you come into my house, I'm going to fight much more viciously to get you out than if we were on a neutral piece of land.

Usually whenever you're scared of something, do it. If you're not afraid of it, don't do it.

'Rocky' represents the optimistic side of life, and 'Rambo' represents purgatory.

When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going to see what you're really made of.

Most of the films I myself like don't do very well. Every director, he has a choice, whether to go for subtlety and try to articulate every minute detail, or to go for the broad strokes and hope that the people will fill in between the lines. I tend to go for the broader strokes.