Making a movie is the same as an orchestra; it’s moving all the different instruments and the sounds, the kinetic and the auditory and the visual all together. I’m probably the trombone.
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Your spiritual sense will make you either a winner or a loser.
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I know I’m incredibly unpredictable, and that’s the only thing I’m sure of.
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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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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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The problem is, your ego sometimes tells you that you can do many things. But sometimes it’s best to stay focused and be honest with yourself.
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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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Rocky’ represents the optimistic side of life, and ‘Rambo’ represents purgatory.
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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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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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I’m a big believer that, in life, we can’t succeed in everything. Most times, we lose.
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I’d rather do something I love badly than to feel bad about not doing something I love.
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Going in one more round when you don’t think you can – that’s what makes all the difference in your life.
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To know that the odds are so high that only through the perishing of your life will the minions survive, that’s love. That’s heroism.
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If you’re willing to take the humiliation of sticking your head above the crowd, maybe it’s, you know, the pleasure will be worth the pain.
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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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I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that’s love, even if it doesn’t seem very exciting.
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I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.
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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 wanted to show I had balls at age 60. Just because society says I’m old, doesn’t mean that I am. I’m pursuing happiness, even if it makes the people around me unhappy.
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Age is a state of old mind. It gets to a point where if you get old enough, you forget how old you are, and that’s the best thing. And then you walk around kind of like in a fog.
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Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.
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Plan B. You’ve always got to have a Plan B.
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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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Consider the source, Don’t be a fool by listening to a fool.
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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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When crossing someone’s borders you have to be prepared to engage in a war that is far more brutal than if it were to take place on neutral territory.
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