If you do something that's really original, you discover why everybody else does it the other way, usually. There's a reason cliches exist, 'cause they work.

At the end of the day, it's still a show about guys who ride extremely fast motorcycles for a living.

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.

Nothing I've done is like anything else I've done before.

The movie I end up with is the movie I aspired to make.

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.

When I was shooting 'The Bourne Identity,' I had a mantra: 'How come you never see James Bond pay a phone bill?' It sounds trite, but it became the foundation of that franchise.