I make films and do the publicity and interviews, but then I want to get away from it all and be on my own.

I was definitely ahead of my friends. I was French-kissing girls way before anybody else was.

I'm a doer, and whether it was the tsunami in Sri Lanka or the earthquake in Indonesia, I was always saying, I should be there; I should be helping out.

I always find film-making a pleasurable experience.

I like having to figure out how to pull things off, how to sell it, how to make it look real, but not just real, make it look better.

Michelle Rodriguez is like the most original person on the planet. She's so straight up, uncensored all the time. Be ready. I love her for that.

I remember when I first came around, the computer-generated stuff was pretty wicked. I was like, 'Wow!' but I feel like then for the longest time, we saw so much of it, after a while, you might as well just be watching an animated movie.