Sylvester Stallone

Like I said, I’ve got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn’t mean you can’t support them emotionally and financially.

Sylvester Stallone

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.

Sylvester Stallone

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.

Sylvester Stallone

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.

Sylvester Stallone

Movies are a collective art. Art by proxy.

Sylvester Stallone

Movies are a whole different ball-game, now. It’s much more of a business – very scientific.

Sylvester Stallone

Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision.

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.

Sylvester Stallone

Now if you know what you’re worth. Then go out and get what you’re worth.

Sylvester Stallone

Now it really is, believe it or not, 90% of the films are green lit, not by the studio heads, but by the marketing department.

Sylvester Stallone