When you're fast when you're shooting, there are great things that you discover. By being fast you also sometimes get more time to experiment.

Fast cars are my only vice.

A lot of directors don't want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it.

For me, the great joy is to watch an audience watching what I've made. To hear not a peep from the audience at the right moment, and then to hear the laughs and the cheers.

I allow a lot of room for improvisation and funny stuff. I always feel planned.

I was talking to one of the writers about our target audience, and he was insulted that I used that term. But if you're given $60 million to make a film, you'd better know who your target audience is. That's who's going to pay back the bills you run up.

I don't ever want to do a movie where you shoot it on a motion capture stage. I just don't like taking the reality out of it. I like being on the set in real environments. I don't like shooting on green screen. I think it gives the actors so much more to play with when there's real stuff happening on the set.