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

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

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 look at directing as a sporting event. It's a race, a marathon. It's great when it clicks, which is why I push my crews so hard so we can excel.

The excitable observer will pass judgement first and then make knowledge conform to judgement the prudent observer will first learn to know and then judge according to knowledge.

In one-act pieces there should be only rubbish - that is their strength.

And he nipped them in the bud, right at the end

Truth is buried, deep inside of men, sweep away each day.

He who never thinks of anything as 'mine' does not feel the lack of anything: he is never worried by a sense of loss.

How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive?

there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.

Without a job all there is to life is boredom and insecurity.

Most of the well-known American feminists of the 19th century did not come out against the institution of marriage.

Be your own worst critic. When things go wrong it's tempting to shift the blame. Don't. Accept responsibility. People will appreciate it, and you will find out what you're capable of.