To know that the odds are so high that only through the perishing of your life will the minions survive, that's love. That's heroism.

When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn't do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me - action pictures.

Movies are a collective art. Art by proxy.

I love being so tight on people in close-ups that the veins in their eyes look like the Mississippi River.

You have to have an almost boundless reservoir of energy and interest to enter politics because quite often it's thankless and fruitless and you can't accomplish much.

When crossing someone's borders you have to be prepared to engage in a war that is far more brutal than if it were to take place on neutral territory.

I consider myself something of a raconteur. I have a rather audacious sense of humour.