I try to make two movies a year. To me, that's not too much. On top of that, I like to work.

Every great story seems to begin with a snake.

I don't want to just do independent movies and I don't want to just do adventure films. I enjoy both, and I think both are cogent.

When you're playing a spirit from another dimension, you really can do anything and get as abstract as you want and still have a context that will work within the movie. I wanted Ghost Rider to move in a way where it would be like a bad dream. I thought about cobra snakes, and the way that they will show you their backs and sway in a rhythmic motion and almost lull you to sleep before suddenly attacking. Well, I put that into the movie. And I decided to move my head in the jerky way a praying mantis does. So, I did all these things to give the movie a feeling of otherness.

You can't make your choices based on what critics think. You have to make your choices based on what's honest for you.

Idris Elba is a grand actor. He's very larger than life; he's bigger than life.

I'm always fearful of something happening to people I love. That doesn't go away.