Writing Too Real from Sylvester Stallone

I have been there Stallone, I rarely write fantasy , with enough fantasy 
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56:53 and it kills me because that's why I like up endings because life usually doesn't end that way so why do you have 56:59 to go out and spend money and see it and feel bad because I feel bad enough walking in here I don't need you to make 57:05 it worse that's my simple philosophy it doesn't exactly go along with true art 57:11 but I never said I was going to make true art yeah and it's ironic that with that period of not working and being in 57:18 the you know the movie theater for so many hours you came back by writing Rocky baloa right which was basically 57:24 the thing that started you in the first place so you went back to the first thing that you got you to the top and 57:30 when you're at the bottom again you brought Rocky back into the picture and you said it was your most proud work by 57:36 far because uh nobody wanted to do it I I felt so worthless and I was so embarrassed to be 57:44 your father tell you the truth because you didn't even know what I did basically for a living we saw your Spy 57:51 Kids Toy Maker what does my father do for a living just wanders around looking 57:57 depressed and I realized you you people that you thought were your friends and 58:04 not your friends when the good times go away that's when you find out your 58:10 family is so important cuz I'm telling you the ship sailed on me it was pretty 58:15 bad it was pretty bad but I took all that in and I thought you 58:21 know if this is if I'm done and I thought I was it was definitely done phone wasn't ringing it was done and I 58:28 was so embarrassed because people did not understand Rocky 5 Rocky five was 58:34 about one of the more real situations that you're so desperate to not be a 58:42 failure for your family that Rocky basically gave up his family because he wanted to get Glory again even if it was 58:49 through another man that he for you know his son he gave up wife he was this and 58:56 that and I wasn't I was not smart enough to realize that's not what people wanted 59:02 to see because that's what happens right you know that's a little too real right 59:10 and I said if I can just go back and do one more because I never thought I'd 59:15 ever do another movie again but in my fantasy I want to do Rocky B Bo which is 59:21 about loss about grief which is is the hardest thing in the world to live with 59:26 girls I swear to you oh [ __ ] it it's it's 59:38 hard I think anyway yeah I don't know why all of a sudden get traumatic like 59:44 that you know some [ __ ] just comes up and you I said how can I write a story 59:51 that I portray that kind of sad you know what I mean and but in the end it's you 59:58 purge yourself of it and that's what Rocky Balo is about he loses his wife he loses everything and people have they 1:00:06 you know they they that's what they experience but in the end he purges himself with what he says I want to get 1:00:13 rid of this old pain and put in some new pain I don't want that those memories 1:00:18 anymore and it worked it really worked well and uh that's my proudest moment 1:00:24 because nobody wanted to do it and they actually said you're done Ro's done I'm going 1:00:31 these are people that represented me that were like I paid lots of money to 1:00:38 and I went wow you really are yeah on your own and I want your girls to know that your best friend has got to be you 1:00:47 I'm serious it's great to have best friends and parents or whatever but you then I got and I did that thing I told 1:00:53 you about in the mirror and I sh you come back you fight you get off your knees you stop feeling sorry for 1:00:59 yourself and you write the best words you've ever written and I think it is by 1:01:04 far Rocky one I think has the element of surprise but Rocky 6 is the best I I I I

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