I don't like the term 'ensemble.' It's bland to me.

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

I mean, I'm not a contrarian.

I think that running a studio gave me an appetite for making a lot of different kinds of movies and it's given me the opportunity to do that.

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?

I think what's fun of making a Transformers movie is that it gets to be all of the above. I think, thematically, this movie is ... because of the third movie, you can ask questions in this movie you couldn't ask in the previous films. Like I was referring to the fact that they were abandoned by humans in the previous film; their attitude is different, so we've been able to tackle different themes.

If the studio wants to spend money on making your movie better, let them.