I'm constantly being visually stimulated.

When you're the director, you kinda do all the work.

Less money sometimes allows you to be more creative.

Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world.

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

I want people to see my movies. My talent, my sensibilities are what people want to see in the movies... While I have the talent to make the kind of movies people want to see I want to continue to do that, keep making big pictures and make what I love. I’m really just making the films I want to see. There’s not a strategy.

There's no greater feeling than people coming up to me and going, "Man, my father was dying, and we went to see Rush Hour, and it was the greatest night we had in years together. We sat in that theater and we laughed for two hours without stopping. That was just a great memory that I had before my father died."