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.

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

When you can come across a piece of material that's totally original and fun and completely satisfying, you jump on it.

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.

I'm a character-driven director, and I tend to fall in love with the characters in my movies and TV shows.

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.

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