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To me, the most perfect screenplay ever written will be one word, when you finally reduce it down to that. Until then, writing will be an imperfect form of communication.

Sylvester Stallone

Nothing’s harder than writing. There’s no comparison. With directing, you can bounce a lot of ideas around. There’s tremendous support – you’ve got editors and sound mixers. With writing, it’s all you, and it’s just crippling when people tear up your pages.
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Comparison Editor Hard Ideas People Sound Support Writing Yourself
I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.
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Expectation Future Greatness High Past
Voices are like fingerprints, from Cagney to Bogart. They never lost it. My voice is instrumental in categorizing me.
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Category Instrument Lost Myself Voice
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.
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Artist Change Death Happiness Paint Yourself
The older I get the more things I gotta leave behind.
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Leaving Myself Old
The only thing that I haven’t done is perform brain surgery on myself. I’ve been very, very lucky. I’ve spared Shakespeare undue stress by not doing that.
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Myself Performance Stress Surgery
You’ve got to show your soul otherwise you’re just a piece of equipment.
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Equipment Pieces Soul Yourself
At the very end, the one person who Rambo should kill, he doesn’t kill. He lets it live. Because you can’t kill that kind of hypocritical bureaucracy. It goes on forever.
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End Forever Hypocrisy Kill Kind Live Person
If you look back at life, I bet you will regret about 80% of your actions. But life consists of all mistakes.
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Action Life Mistake Regret Yourself
Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision.
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Collection Complete Conscious Movie People Vision Work
I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
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Blow Myself Rejection Treat Wake Up
When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.
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End Myself School Student Teaching Vote
For every guy, there is an opportunity to be a lot better than he thought he could be. We can’t all be the star of the team, but we can be a star in our life. That’s where you set your goal.
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Better Goal Life Opportunity Ourselves Stardom Thinking
I think everyone has a certain kind of formula in their life. When you deviate from that formula, you’re going to fail big or you’re gonna win big.
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Big Failure Formula Kind Myself Thinking Win
If you don’t have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.
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Build Life Mountain Start Yourself
I’m not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren’t straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.
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Classical Eyes Myself Voice Work

To me, the most perfect screenplay ever written will be one word, when you finally reduce it down to that. Until then, writing will be an imperfect form of communication.

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To me, the most perfect screenplay ever written will be one word, when you finally reduce it down to that. Until then, writing will be an imperfect form of communication.

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