For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts - but then I stayed thin and someone else got all the muscles.

You have to keep surprising your audience.

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 hate 'The Professional.' It's one of the worst action/adventure movies ever made.

I think it's very admirable, in a superhero movie, to be able to take a few risks.

People would say, "Well yeah, if I wrote action films, if I wrote the trash that you write, I could make millions too. But I want to write my real movie about these Guatemalan immigrants, and how they hid under a truck for 300 miles." And that's fine. I'd love to make that film too, but to dismiss everything I did just because it's action seems wrong.