Before I did 'Rush Hour,' I was a big fan of Jackie Chan movies and I had seen all of them.

There's no difference between a tacky Jew from Miami and a rap star. They both want the Cadillac and the Rolex with the diamonds.

I'm not going to turn down an Oscar, but I'm not strategizing for one.

I think taking the biggest star in India and the biggest star in America, and putting them together in a movie that starts in America and ends up in India, or starts in India and goes to America. I think it would be a buddy cop formula.

Rehearsal? What’s that? Rehearsal’s for fags. Rehearsal. Not much.

I learn more from the audience than I can from anybody else. Not from what they write on the scorecards, but how they respond to the movie while they're watching it - where they laugh and where they react.

I love movie directors. I don't care who it is.