'Vacation' means titillating my taste buds.

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.

I'm constantly being visually stimulated.

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.

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

When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.

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