Now it really is, believe it or not, 90% of the films are green lit, not by the studio heads, but by the marketing department.

There's a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.

I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.

Rambo isn't violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist.

Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that's just the way it is.

When you're pushed killing is as easy as breathing.

Back there I could fly a gunship, I could drive a tank, I was in charge of million dollar equipment, back here I can't even hold a job PARKING CARS!

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

Don't be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there's a reaction.

When you develop your gift, you will be well known

Can I finish my blasted story? We'll get to supernatural kindergarten later.

If I were investing in oil and gas stocks, there is one question I would ask CEO's: What portion of your capital is going to have to go in to stay even

Amazing what people make up based on what they choose to see.

May each of you live lives of immersion. They won't necessarily be easy lives. But in the end, it is all that will sustain us.

love doesn't follow the rules... nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable.

I didn't know how...deep love ran, how it was in your blood, not your heart, and how that same blood pumped through your veins your whole life.

It's not fair. It's not. But then, that's the game. It makes life great. The fact that it ends when we don't want it to. The ending gives it meaning.

The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.

You want to tell a great story. You want these characters to become part of people's lives. And then, hopefully, that generates discussion.