It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive.

One of the most amazing locations I've ever been is the top of the volcano in Tanzania, Africa. It's an actual volcano where you really have this lava every day.

Angelina wanted to make sure that any fighting in the movie would be comparable to any male actor. Everything from stick fighting to horse riding was real to her.

I had a very strong-willed mother, who I totally adored. She was always in control of her life.

I think the audience would like to see movies that are stunning to watch. I really think they'd like to see spectacles.

We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie.

I really believe action will always be there and will never disappear.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

This film, Tomb Raider 2, is a big challenge. It's quite exhausting.

Summer movies are spectacles; that's what you pay 10 dollars to see. You want to get teased by effects sometimes. I think that will never stop.

Being in an area of the planet where scientists believe mankind started is quite amazing.

...things can happen when you least expect them so you always gotta be prepared. And pay attention to the details. The devil is in the details.

The last we heard of him was a picture postcard from Mazatlan, on the Pacific coast of Mexico, containing a message of two words: "Hello - Goodbye!" and no address.

At thirty a man steps out of the darkness and wasteland of preparation into active life it is the time to show oneself, the time of fulfillment.

He couldn’t believe that sleep had robbed him of this spectacle night after night. Such are the writer’s privileges, he thought, nostalgic already for the present.

The period from 2001 to 2005 was really tough. My films were not working even though there was an acceptance of a model. I was depressed but did not cry. I cry when I am happy.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Every success is usually an admission ticket to a new set of decisions.

I have need of a friend. There is one and only one who will give the air from his failing lungs for my body's mend. And that one is my love.

The most consistent gift and burden of motherhood is advice.

I have always kept ducks, even as a child, and the colours of their plumage, in particular the dark green and snow white, seemed to me the only possible answer to the questions that are on my mind.