To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic.

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.

It's better to find a stunt person who can act. It's easier to do that than to find an actor who can do a stunt.

Once I'm in the editing room, forget about what I intended to shoot. I take a cold, hard look at what I really did shoot, and then I edit that because, if you try to edit what you intended and you missed somewhere, that will show up.

It's hard to get a movie made about characters these days. We're in a climate where, unless it's based on a toy or it's a superhero where somewhere it ends in man - like Spider-Man, Superman or Iron Man - it's hard to get it made.

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.