When I read in The New Yorker that the Golden Gate Bridge was the most popular suicide magnet in the world, I could not stop thinking about what someone must be going through as they walked from the parking lot on either side to some spot in the middle and climbed over the rail. It seemed like the darkest corner of the human mind–Eric Steel.

I'll be terribly upset if Ie found out that my daughter is using the drug. But if that happened, I'd explain to her that I know she loves me and her mother and that we'd rather she didn't smoke that stuff. You have to be patient. It's not going to do any good to beat the hell out of them–John Wayne

The single most thrilling moment of the shoot came when HBO allowed the production to take advantage of the Hopkins-Taylor crowd and have Rocky enter the full arena, walk down the aisle and into the ring with six camera covering the action. As Stallone raised his arms, 14,000 real fight fans screamed “Rocky! Rocky! Rocky!” in a frenzy that could not have been matched with paid extras.

For Stallone, Rocky strikes a resonant chord because audiences see themselves in the character. With a 30-year-span since the release of the first film, Stallone sought to create a story that would connect these ideas to a new generation: “The film's central truth is that anything is possible if you believe enough. It's a pretty universal dream to try to rise up and take your best shot at life.