For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts - but then I stayed thin and someone else got all the muscles.

You have to keep surprising your audience.

I always have humour in my action movies. I think characters that make jokes under fire are more real. It somehow helps put you in their shoes.

The only way you can stay on top is to remember to touch bottom and get back to basics.

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

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.

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

I have these guilty pleasures, these failed films that don't work at all, but I'll watch them if they're on. Like 'The Game'.

Once I started selling scripts for a great deal of money - action scripts, no less, which people tend to pooh-pooh anyway - then I started to get some backlash. Which I didn't mind.

I think it's very admirable, in a superhero movie, to be able to take a few risks.

I wrote all the time, but the idea of doing it professionally seemed like pie in the sky. Who gets paid to write? I grew up in Pittsburgh, so it wasn't really a notion that a lot of people pursue.

To be enslaved then, you needed to be ignorant. To be enslaved today, you need to be knowledgeable.

We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all.

Love conquers all, " murmured Kim. "I heard it in a song, so it must be true.

Excellence Matters. Excellent people. Excellent vision. Excellent marketing. Excellent strategies.

Only when we're thoroughly convinced that the Christian life is entirely of grace are we able to serve God out of a grateful and loving heart.

People who wish to be offended will always find some occasion for taking offense.

The industrial revolution in the new century is, in essence, a scientific and technological revolution, and breaking through the cutting edge is a shortcut to the building of an economic giant.

Her voice left a flavor of honey and gunpowder on the air.

There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.

It's not so simple to just stay in the moment and trust your game and your strength that you can turn it around.