In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business.

I'm definitely not a nerd.

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

At the end of the day, audiences just want to laugh and be entertained. They want to escape from their reality, and that's why we make movies, to get people to escape from the realities.

I'm not invited to the Vanity Fair dinner where they watch the Oscars - or even the Oscars themselves - so I sit at home and watch it with a bunch of close friends.

You've got to think about how to do things for the right price. You have to shoot in different places to be creative and get tax rebates.

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.