There’s something about the good-hearted guy fighting the system. I just love that. That’s how Speed is. He’s a really focused guy with a heart of gold and the corporations are trying to crush him and use him for his skills to make them more money.

I'm not a ball in a pinball machine. I know what I want.

If you give an actor any wiggle room to whine in situations where they want to whine, you're gonna whine.

Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme.

I've realized that what you think of when you make a 'big movie,' if it's actually a green screen movie, it's like doing independent New York theater because you don't have any backgrounds or props. So it's kind of like making the lowest budgeted film you could possibly imagine, plus $100 million.

I'm not staying away from any genre. I'm trying to get scripts that I like.

It was very, very challenging being on this thing called the gimbal. It would throw you around, give you whiplash, and they'd tie you down.