I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.
SYLVESTER STALLONEMost action is based on redemption and revenge, and that’s a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It’s how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting.
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Artists die twice. First creatively. Then physically. The second one is the easiest.
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When life hits you pretty hard, you can go into a dark corner.
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Don’t be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there’s a reaction.
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I’ve had a lot of operations. I’m kind of like Franken-actor.
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Rambo isn’t violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist.
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Every time I’ve failed, people had me out for the count, but I always come back.
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I try to eliminate as much dialogue as possible, and I guess Rambo is my really best experiment with how to eliminate dialogue.
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I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I’ve just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it’s not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.
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I have tons of regrets, but I think that’s one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their angst, their regret, comes the best from artists, painters and writers.
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Once in one’s life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived.
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I was an insecure kid. Once I saw ‘Hercules’ with Steve Reeves, it completely changed my life. If I had never gone to that film, I wouldn’t be here today.
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Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that’s a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It’s how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting.
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Gangster is the truest friend I can ever ask for.
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Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.
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I think I’m a much better painter than an actor.
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