I'm a character-driven director, and I tend to fall in love with the characters in my movies and TV shows.

That's why 'The Bourne Identity' has that sort of shaky style, because for the most part, Matt Damon and I were sneaking around Paris and shooting where we didn't have permits.

At the end of the day, it's still a show about guys who ride extremely fast motorcycles for a living.

I can't impress people with the pedigree of obscure French filmmakers that got me into film. It was Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg. I really thought I wanted to make dumb action movies.

In movies, you can basically buy the audience into the theater. If you spend enough money on visual effects, even if you are lacking in story and character, you might still pull it off.

To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic.

I make movies for me and posterity. I'm more scared of history than I am of the studio.

If you do something that's really original, you discover why everybody else does it the other way, usually. There's a reason cliches exist, 'cause they work.

It's no secret that my process is a little bit loose and can be a little bit infuriating to a studio if they don't know what they're signing up for.

When I was shooting 'The Bourne Identity,' I had a mantra: 'How come you never see James Bond pay a phone bill?' It sounds trite, but it became the foundation of that franchise.

I probably shouldn't treat interviews as therapy sessions, but I don't keep a diary, so these end up being my way of keeping track of where I'm at and letting it all out.

Passion belongs to nothing and reason belong to many things that’s why reason it is better than passion.

Government can take your money at gunpoint; businesses have to persuade you.

I'm the git in the family.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

How simple it is to see that all the worry in the world cannot control the future.

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

I love doing yoga and also enjoy going for regular walks.

Like most lazy upper-middle-class kids, American Studies seemed like a fun way to use your knowledge of TV to get an A.

All things are beautiful seen through the eyes of love.

Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime...