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

The other thing being at UCLA was just being in California and around the movie business. Which I honestly believe, and I've told this to screenwriters, you have to do. You have to be there in order to write or direct movies.

I always have humour in my action movies. I think characters that make jokes under fire are more real. It somehow helps put you in their shoes.

I don't mind women who want to act. That's fine. It's odd that men want to act, in that there's still a degree of vanity associated with it.

Once I started selling scripts for a great deal of money - action scripts, no less, which people tend to pooh-pooh anyway - then I started to get some backlash. Which I didn't mind.

I love the idea of a super villain that doesn't wear a cape, that doesn't wear a super suit.

I think it's an obligation to make a movie full, so you have to see it twice to get all the moments.