As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.

I'm just a giant film fan, so I love action movies out of all kinds of movies. As a film geek, it's amazing to be able to shoot this stuff.

You could feel America starting to ease up a little bit on racism, against blacks in certain pockets, and then suddenly The Cosby Show bubbled up and it was the right time for it.

I always give myself a little part in every movie.

If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

The only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors, directors, musicians, set designers, and photographers. In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.

Old man with an old phone. That's never not funny.