A lot of directors don't want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it.

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.

To be any sort of competent writer one must keep one's psychological distance from the supreme artists.

It was rumored she held grudges till they died of old age, then had them stuffed and mounted.

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

America is a country founded on religious freedom and liberty.

I love the unknown. I love the discovery of what will be happening and just kind of sitting back and not knowing.

There are a lot of movies that are unbelievable successes that I would be mortified to be a part of.

Our calling is not only to pull people out of the river, but to go upstream to find out what or who is pushing them in.

And specialness - everyone wants it. But Jesus, is it the most essential thing there is? Most people aren't talented. So what are they supposed to do - kill themselves?

Until we become the architects of a society that is truly free and ecological, it will always seem that when the human brain is not adaptive, it is more often destructive than creative.

New York has always been going to hell but somehow it never gets there.