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.

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 wanted at one point to act, which is a weird thing for men to want to do. It's a very vain profession.

All these many-coloured feelings fell... like light on a black surface, producing no change, meeting no return.

A Dirty Clown Is a Ridiculously Clean when standing amongst Politicians.

The whole point of me doing a Christmas record and what I centered it around was the song 'Christmas with You' from the point-of-view of the soldiers in Iraq.

Look poor, think rich.

We must look forward to the future as that is where most of us will be spending the rest of our lives.

[Pope Francis] is 78 years old and knows that his will be a short pontificate.

There is no border. I'm branding my films as Malay cinema, but it's just about cinema. Everything that I make is about humanity's struggle, so there is no border, really.

Life is as the current spark on the miner's wheel of flints; While it spinneth, there is light; stop it, all is darkness.

My heart is a garden tired with autumn.

My intentions create my reality.