We are creating a fabulous franchise with an incredible female action hero.

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.

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

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.

The Servant who really studies his Master gradually becomes like his master

...That's why we have the Museum, Matty, to remind us of how we came, and why: to start fresh, and begin a new place from what we had learned and carried from the old.

Who can worry about a career? Have a life.

It brings joy in sorrow, victory in battle, light to darkness, life to the dead. That is the power of the blood-red jewel which men honor with the name "The Philosopher's Stone.

Give the American people a good cause, and there's nothing they can't lick.

Co-operation between governments still plays an important role and will remain indispensable.

Amongst the friends of Allah (Awliya), the Qur'an is considered as a love letter from Allah, which inevitably is read continuously to remind them of their Beloved.

The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.

If you look at a cartoon on a computer screen, it really jumps and can be quite effective.

I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world.