ROCKY: A MOVIE ABOUT FAITH IN JESUS

"I always felt as though I was a conduit for God's word," Stallone says.

"I never was a major in English, and all of a sudden I write a screenplay that is being nominated for best picture of the year, so I figured it had to have come from God."

Stallone says that in the past, his ego and worldly temptation’s took over in his life and he went spiraling out of control.

Rather than living like Rocky with some sense of ideal, he didn’t.

“I thought I was entitled to things. You’re not entitled to anything,” Stallone says. “You are what you leave behind.”

Stallone says the more he goes to church, and the more he turns himself over to the process of believing in Jesus and listening to his Word and helping him guide his hand, he feels as though the pressure is off himself.

Stallone says that he picked this time in life to make "Rocky Balboa" because he's realized, as a mature man, that faith is all there really is. "I think as a young person, you tend to think that the world somewhat revolves around you, that you can recover from anything, that you tend to have this kind of vim and vigor and energy to take on the world on your own shoulders.

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