I can feel my dreams but I can't remember them.

Hyperbole is something Id better avoid.

I hate losing laughs; they're rare things.

Once the voices are in your head, it's either make a movie or kill a lot of people.

I got tired of my taxes paying for exciting little wars around the world. Then I discovered that when I died, my wife would probably have to sell our house to pay for the taxes in America.

Invariably, what I'm trying to do is more ambitious than the budget, but we manage to do it somehow.

My strength, if it's anything, is that I can lure some big-name actors in. That's probably the strength of almost any director now. On your own, as a director, you've only got so much weight. James Cameron, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Michael Bay... that's about it. Everybody else depends on the star power that they can draw.