Stallone: 'I prefer painting to acting'

Sylvester Stallone has revealed that he prefers painting to acting.

The Rambo star, who has had some of his own artwork displayed at Art Basel Miami Beach, said that films don't always live up to their hype, unlike paintings.

Stallone told The Times: "Movies are a vision dependent upon three or four hundred people to accomplish it. So there's great compromising.

"And so much is lost in the translation. So when you get up there, it's maybe 40% of the way you envisaged it. Because of the finance thing, and the actor doesn't interpret it properly. Or the director isn't on form that day and he missed the whole point.

"Whereas painting is all you do. It either soars or it crashes. There's no-one to blame but one person. I find that the more unhappy you are, the more confused you are, the better your art is. Happy art, it just doesn't seem to work for me."