Stallone prefers painting to filmmaking

Hollywood`s action superstar Sylvester Stallone prefers painting to making films as with art he can only blame himself if it goes wrong.

The `Rocky` actor, who has had his paintings displayed at Art Basel Miami Beach recently, claimed films rarely live up to the hype because of the scale of production, a news website reported.

"Movies are a vision dependent upon three or four hundred people to accomplish it. So there`s great compromising," Stallone said.

"And so much is lost in the translation. So when you get up there, it`s maybe 40 per cent 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," he added.

"Whereas painting is all you do. It either soars or it crashes. There`s no one to blame but one person," Stallone said.

The 63-year-old star also suggested many of his art pieces come out being in a bad mood.

"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," Stallone said.