Stallone Is A Pretty Tough Director. You

I Know What Its Like To Direct. You Become A More Considerate Actor. After You Have Directed, You Understand What Is Going On. You Can't Help But Think Of The Material As A Director. You Do Come Up With Suggestions. You Come Up With Shortcuts That You Weren't Aware Of Before. You Try To Be Helpful To The Director If He Has A Lot On His Hands.

When You're Directing You're Kind Of Interested In The Movie And The Story And The Characters. I Just Sort Of Prefer The Really Tough Fighting And Some Of The Other Street Fighting Type Moves. You Know, Where It's Not Just Show. It's Not Dressing It Up For The Cameras Too Much. It's Pretty Down And Dirty, The Way It Should Be. That's Something I Like To Do. I Do That.

You Know, Some Of The Action Stuff, I Tend To Have A Pretty Good Sense Of Humor About It. Even When I Direct And Have A Lot Of Pressure, It Teaches Me To Laugh At Stuff. I Think That Comes Also From Sports, From Combat Sports, Where You've Got To Learn To Laugh At It And Take It In Stride. Otherwise, You Just Can't Deal With It.

I Like The Old School Heavy Metal Bands Like Ac/dc And Aeromith. I Like That Type Of Music. As The Director, I Tried To Influence The Type Of Music The Bands In The Movie Would Play.

My Dad Was In The Swedish Armed Forces, He Was Always Reading Up On Different Weapons From The Americans And Soviets. When I Was A Kid, I Was In Bed Looking At His Books, Reading About The Red Army. So I Was Very Aware Of It. I Had An Interest In Military Matters Ever Since.