Women are like ovens. We need 5 to 15 minutes to heat up.

If you can't categorize a film for a studio, it's really difficult for them to wrap their heads around it and give you the money.

All the knowledge that I have doesn't necessarily make me brilliant, but I love acquiring knowledge and then sharing it with everybody else.

I have achieved everything through either hard work or luck.

Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a 'bus movie.'

There is a difference between executive producing and producing. Producing, you have no life for two years. You take everything personally, you want to kill everyone, you're depressed and angry, and then in the end you feel excited when it actually works. But executive producing, you can go home at the end of the day.

Getting into television was a total fluke.