It is really cool to have created a movie that has turned out to become the biggest movie of the year.

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.

[T]hrough bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.

Every solider believes in war till the time he actually fights it.

Well-developed characters will ruin your writing plans every time. You may think you know where you're going with a story, but they have other ideas.

I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army.

Some men pray only when the world is dark, as owls hoot at night.

Conscience is what your mother told you before you were six years old.

If you are sad and depressed, that means you're not believing God.

I got born in the wrong family.

Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in green ink when under age, but when of age, in purple.

Equality of opportunity is the essence of social justice.