I wanted at one point to act, which is a weird thing for men to want to do. It's a very vain profession.

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.

Success is getting through defiance, adversity and difficulties, feeling hopeless and defeated but never giving up until you achieve your goal

i wish i could live in my dream.

Kindness is a steeling feeling that has a power of filling the gaps in relationships by stealing hearts.

Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.

If you're a fan of hurting others, talking down to, or trying to bring others down, then never call yourself a fan of mine.

I had totally lost my way. I lost focus. I lost myself.

I think that, like any art, fashion is about expression. It allows you to express yourself and your identity through what you choose to wear.

Man is incurably curious.

I call intuition cosmic fishing. You feel a nibble, then you've got to hook the fish.

There were few who preferred honor to money.