I look at directing as a sporting event. It's a race, a marathon. It's great when it clicks, which is why I push my crews so hard so we can excel.

I allow a lot of room for improvisation and funny stuff. I always feel planned.

I make movies for teenage boys. Oh, dear, what a crime.

Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism.

Some nights I sleep like a baby. Other nights it's, Oh God, I just came up with a bomb shot.

Fast cars are my only vice.

Why isn't everything exploding?!

I'm one of the few directors that actually shoots a lot in camera.

Maybe I have just a younger voice than many other directors.

I go out there to win. People don't care if you die in this business. The only way I get back is with success.

Nobody in the world knew about Megan Fox until I found her and put her in 'Transformers.' I like to think that I've had some luck in building actors' careers with my films.

Examine this statement: ‘A woman cannot be a poet.’ Dr Samuel Johnson (Englishman 1709-84 Occupation: Language Fixer and Big Mouth.) What then shall I give up? My poetry or my womanhood?

Ego doesn't want us to be loving, forgiving and kind to each other or even to ourselves.

We are all children coming inside from recess with varying degrees of dirt on us.

Whited sepulchres which indeed appear beautiful outward but are within full of dead men's bones.

Being gifted needs courage.

What makes things exciting in life is to overcome your challenges and get creative and think outside of the box.

Just before bedtime prayers, evaluate each day. Make plans for tomorrow that will move you toward your long-range goal. Strive for a close partnership with God in making your dreams come true.

Why is a picture of something real eventually more exciting than the thing itself?

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.