"In fact, every day I'll read a chapter of some art book. I don't know why. It's just a habit."
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"We follow a certain pattern, a maze, if you will, every day, tracing our steps into certain districts and neighborhoods and back home. So it's easy for people to relate to clichés. That's why comedy routines are based on mutual experiences of clichés."
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"I'm usually taken for a non-intellectual, a person of limited intelligence. I don't know why, but I figure it's because physically I don't look intelligent."
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"Certain characters, mostly heroes, have to be the straight silent type; that is part of the make-up."
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"Eventually writing became more interesting to me than acting."
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"Early on everyone should do, every time they do a big film, they should do a little film. It really does keep you grounded."
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"And if I look at my icebox, there's no way I'm sitting there looking like Gandhi. I mean, I don't have crickets in there and little green rice. No, I mean it's a pretty liberal icebox. It's all in there."
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"The idea that boxing lends itself to cinema so well is because it's usually a morality play - good against evil, insecurity and triumph, fear strikes out, so the audience can really get drawn into the drama of it. Also, it was sensual and very primal. I think subliminaly we do two things - life is a fight, life is a struggle and we understand that from our early, early, early ancestors, and life is a race."
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"It's great the way the old-time directors used to manipulate the hell out of you. You see someone dying and all of a sudden a ghost would come out and they go walking hand in hand up the stairway."
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"When you are young, you often think that the world spins around you. You think you can do anything, can take the world on your shoulders."
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"Usually whenever you're scared of something, do it. If you're not afraid of it, don't do it."
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"Often people going into directing want to learn as much as they possibly can about "technique." And I say the hell with that."
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"When I was cognizant of the war, I was very angry at the street-corner liberals who were trying to defame the footsoldier. Because there was a man who had no choice. He was a cog in the wheel, just trying to survive. I was always aware of that."
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"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."
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"The idea of Rambo is kind of intriguing as a closing chapter. When you shoot a film as a sequel to do another sequel it's a whole other tone. But when you know it's the final chapter you try and put in there as much emotion, understanding and closure as you can. So, whereas Rocky is a lighter character and optimistic, Rambo is much darker."
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"I think everyone has questions in their mind. Did they do their very best?"
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"I've always said that the artist dies twice. And the first death is the hardest which is the career death, the creative death. The physical death is an inevitability."
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"A lot of time people are like, "oh my God, you're stereotyped." Good, then you're known for something."
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"To be really artful, though, you have to be subjective and so singular."
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"I'd live in a museum if I could. I used to spend hours and hours in the Museum of Modern Art."
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