By Nikola Grozdanovic

"Of course, if you go in intellectually, you hate it. But if you let yourself go with it, something happens about 40 minutes into the movie. You say to yourself, 'Hey, this isn't going to be the colossal downer of all time.'" That's Sylvester Stallone talking about "Rocky," in a 1976 interview with Roger Ebert.

Looking at the mega action-star's whole career in hindsight, and up until today, you could just as easily apply that quote to all of his films. He adopted this philosophical approach ever since he became famous in the mid-'70s, and it became the Sly Stallone method of contributing to the world of cinema. 

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Source: http://blogs.indiewire.com/