I wanted at one point to act, which is a weird thing for men to want to do. It's a very vain profession.

When you only have $15 million, you have to talk about something interesting. You can't just cut to a helicopter exploding.

I wanted at one point to act, which is a weird thing for men to want to do. It's a very vain profession.

When you are making a lot of money people forget you are trying to be creative and they picture you laughing all the way to the bank ... especially with an action script, automatically it gets boo-hooed as being worthless. It was very difficult to hear that sort of thing and I lost a good many friends over money issues because they didn't have money or their scripts weren't selling and mine were.

I think the most important thing is to, without belligerence, stand up for what want. Argue compellingly if someone tries to change your script.

An action film can have too much action; picture an equaliser on a stereo, with all the knobs pegged at 10. It becomes a cacophony and is, ultimately, quite boring.

I'm ashamed to say this, but I watched every episode of 'Starsky and Hutch' as a kid. I loved that show, but now I think it's stupid - they'd have a car chase for no reason, then Paul Michael Glaser would shoot the car and it would blow up.