I jumped 18 cars on a motorcycle, so I did almost everything.

It was great. I mean, it's a blast directing underwater stuff.

So then I started doing a lot of episodic TV, just car chases or helicopter chases or whatever.

Waterworld was the best time of my life. It was physically demanding, but it was fun. I mean, you're in Hawaii for nine months shooting on the water every day.

No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences.

Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.

I think my biggest break though came probably on Patriot Games because it was the biggest, longest second unit up to that point. It was like five months of shooting and a huge crew.

Yeah, getting the company that would help advertise and cross promote the movie on the release was an important factor for New Line, so we went out to a lot of different companies.

Its pretty rare for companies to have a snooping policy, although it is getting more common.

Chris Columbus was really interesting to watch how he works with children.

I like Soderbergh, Spielberg, Lucas. There's a lot of talented guys out there obviously, and if you're a fan of films, you have to look at that stuff and learn from them.

A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.

Our insight into the need of redemption will largely depend upon our knowledge of the terrible nature of the power that has entered our being.

Time is your cathedral. You know the present is only a pretty illusion in the minds of men. And I think you know that nothing has ever passed away, not entirely.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Pain is my daily routine. As long as I don't go to the hospital, it's nothing for me.

I did a film called Dracula and it was very nice because I had lots of trips to New York on Concorde.

because talent alone doesn't make an artist

Love is an artful arrangement of artless pretensions, whereby we labor to appear innocent in what we desire to be most cunning.

People are born with certain faces, like my father was born with a face that people want to hit.

Why are there no clouds in the sky? ... 'Cause God wants to watch his favorite band again!