I'm finished with destroying for a while. It's not like I'm running around saying, 'What else can I destroy?'

When it comes to action, I'd say Mel Gibson and Will [Smith] were great.

There's not really much destruction in New York besides the weather and it's a natural force so it's not like any destruction. But LA gets leveled (laughs). That's my comment to Hollywood.

I'm doing a much smaller movie. It's set in Germany and it's a totally different subject matter. I'm trying to break it up.

Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders.

I'm finished with destroying for a while. It's not like I'm running around saying, 'What else can I destroy?'

In the end [of the "2012"], there were no ships, no water, no nothing. Only the interiors [were real]. Everything else had to be made, and that is always challenging.