In the real world, if you're in a car chase, you're going to hit a million things and your car is going to end up a total wreck by the end.

I think making a great action movie is one of the hardest cinematic endeavors. By definition, smart characters avoid action. Smart people don't go down dark alleys, but if you're making an action movie and you want to have an action sequence, somehow you have to get that character into that dangerous situation.

In movies, you can basically buy the audience into the theater. If you spend enough money on visual effects, even if you are lacking in story and character, you might still pull it off.

I think when the United States of America put a man on the moon in 1969, that was one of the greatest accomplishments mankind has ever done.

TV has no choice, but to rely on character, and everybody knows that. I love working in it. It's such a big canvas where, if you're successful, you go on for years.

I started my career wanting to make a 'James Bond' movie, and I couldn't get hired! I made 'The Bourne Identity,' and ultimately the impact of that film was that it changed the 'James Bond' franchise.

There are actors who just bring an enormous amount of empathy. They just have that"it" that makes you want to follow them and root for them.