John Voight’s technique [in The Champ] was very good.

For a long time it was Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas, and then I saw a film called The Champ. It's a tearjerker of a movie, man. It's real old. There's this little boy, and he's yelling: "Come on, champ! You can get up in the ring again, champ!" It's a good one.

The saddest scene in this film is the ultimate sad scene of any film ever. It’s so sad that I remember hearing my parents watching this movie, and I listened from my bedroom and I cried really hard. I cried from just listening to the scene! It’s that good. And that sad. When Ricky Schroeder leans over the dead Champ and tells him to “Get up. Get up Champ. Let’s go home. Get up Champ.” NOOOOOO.