The only way you can stay on top is to remember to touch bottom and get back to basics.

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.

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.

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 don't have to feel grateful in order to be grateful.

Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.

Please always see the bright side of everything.

Coincidence is God's way of performing miracles anonymously.

Self-pity is a death that has no resurrection a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.

You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.

There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.

There shall be a National Anthem containing incomprehensible words and a high note that normal humans cannot hit without risk of hernia.

My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree.

Never be too busy to listen to your instinctive feelings when something feels wrong.