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

Any time anyone fires bullets in an action movie that don't hit the target it immediately undermines the movie.

Writing scripts is a laborious job that can be a real pain.

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

It was like a frat house for film geeks, the Pad O' Guys. That's what being at UCLA afforded me. So when one of us had some success - in this case, my pal Fred Dekker - he would reach down the ladder and help me up a rung, give my work to his agent to pass around to see if anyone liked it.

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

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.