It's so hard to find a director who, when you look at their body of work, you like everything.

I think when you're doing something cutting edge like 'The Matrix,' it might mean when everybody's saying 'no' that you're really on the right track.

I mean, I'm not a contrarian.

As a filmmaker you have to keep asking yourself the question are we really going to impress them [audience] either by the wow factor, the intelligence factor, the I didn't see that coming factor?

My backpack has seven or eight DVDs in it and four or five of them have been there three months and I'm desperate to get to them.

I used to do a stunt in almost every movie. When I became an executive, all the insurance guys freaked out.

The action pictures I've been typically involved with, when somebody gets punched, you really feel the punching, and when somebody gets shot, you really feel the shot.