When you're fast when you're shooting, there are great things that you discover. By being fast you also sometimes get more time to experiment.

I allow a lot of room for improvisation and funny stuff. I always feel planned.

I make movies for teenage boys. Oh, dear, what a crime.

Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism.

Some nights I sleep like a baby. Other nights it's, Oh God, I just came up with a bomb shot.

Fast cars are my only vice.

Why isn't everything exploding?!

I'm one of the few directors that actually shoots a lot in camera.

Maybe I have just a younger voice than many other directors.

I go out there to win. People don't care if you die in this business. The only way I get back is with success.

Nobody in the world knew about Megan Fox until I found her and put her in 'Transformers.' I like to think that I've had some luck in building actors' careers with my films.

I got put into leadership roles very early in life from fifth grade, sixth grade. I always ended up being the quarterback or the leader of the sports teams, and it's kind of benefiting me now.

We're past the age of heroes and hero kings... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.

The writing itself is the thing that generates stories for me.

I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.

Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and look back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.

We need a spirit of adoption to take us out of the foundling hospital of the world, and to put us into the celestial family.

Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you've met your New Year's resolution.

I am certainly more interested in interviewing than being interviewed. Sometimes you find yourself attacked from the start.

So the American economy needs the world, and the world needs the American economy.

Anyone who has owned many cats in long succession can define his or her life as a series of furry episodes.