I hate 'The Professional.' It's one of the worst action/adventure movies ever made.

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.

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

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.

First times are always sacred. May we never run out of "firsts

I have a checklist of things I'd like to do in movies. One of them is get possessed. Die on a deathbed with a ghostly pallor - that's on my list.

I don't like to be walking around in a vacuum, lost in my own thoughts. I'm much better with information.

Bush's memoir is 512 pages. To be fair, 200 of those pages are just games and puzzles.

The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.

My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.

But man is above all a social and political animal; his relations with his fellow human beings form his most absorbing and important interest.

Animals are happier than humans because they're like furry little existentialists, all living in the moment. Their collective motto: live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking pelt.

The most basic problem is that performance appraisals often don't accurately assess performance.