Now, anybody can make a movie, and I don't see that many great movies, because I think there's only a limited amount of talent out there.

I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life, it seems to me, in the modern world. We're all depressed.

There was a perverse side of me, with things like Van Helsing coming out. I didn't want to go down that route.

I wasn't creative or theatrical. I was just doing everything. I was head cheerleader, valedictorian - it was ridiculous!

I thought, how do you confuse violent Russian mobsters? Well, by being silly!

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.

I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.