Everybody has a background. Everybody has a past. Not everybody's the same person all the way through.

Our world faces incredible economic uncertainty. The notion of what is a super power has evolved, and who actually can carry what muscle has changed.

If a character dies, you should feel that. If a character accomplishes something, you should feel that. That's where you try to find that balance. It's impossible to articulate, as you go through it. You just have to recognize it.

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.

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.

What I can't figure out is why we're not making more R-rated movies, actually.

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.