I don't mind women who want to act. That's fine. It's odd that men want to act, in that there's still a degree of vanity associated with it.

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.

One day, the child will understand what he feared most and he will laugh at his ignorance!

Our imperfections make us unique as surely as our strengths.

A father who is a chronic debtor, an adulterous mother, a beautiful wife, and an unlearned son are enemies in one's own home.

Nevertheless, I take all of these slings and arrows gladly for you.

You don't know how many people come up to me and say, 'This child was conceived listening to you.'

When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.

It is the act of a coward to wish for death.

When death is so certain, it is better to die for a good cause.

When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.

No matter how loud you shout, you will not drown out the voice of the people!