If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it's there and to push it just a little bit faster.

I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.

I'm not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.

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.

All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.

If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.