The action movies changed radically when it became possible to Velcro your muscles on. It was the beginning of a new era. The visual took over. The special effects became more important than the single person. That was the beginning of the end.

If you think people are inherently good, you get rid of the police for 24 hours - see what happens.

Making a movie is the same as an orchestra; it's moving all the different instruments and the sounds, the kinetic and the auditory and the visual all together. I'm probably the trombone.

No one's life is totally morbid. Even on a subtle scale there's little flashes of enlightenment and of happiness and joy.

When life hits you pretty hard, you can go into a dark corner.

I respect a woman too much to marry her.

Action film is really easy to do, you just get in a car and smash through things and it's called action. The real key is what happens between the action when it's quiet. Loud is easy. Quiet, real hard.