It was great. I mean, it's a blast directing underwater stuff.

So then I started doing a lot of episodic TV, just car chases or helicopter chases or whatever.

Waterworld was the best time of my life. It was physically demanding, but it was fun. I mean, you're in Hawaii for nine months shooting on the water every day.

No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences.

Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.

I think my biggest break though came probably on Patriot Games because it was the biggest, longest second unit up to that point. It was like five months of shooting and a huge crew.

Yeah, getting the company that would help advertise and cross promote the movie on the release was an important factor for New Line, so we went out to a lot of different companies.

Its pretty rare for companies to have a snooping policy, although it is getting more common.

Chris Columbus was really interesting to watch how he works with children.

I jumped 18 cars on a motorcycle, so I did almost everything.

I like Soderbergh, Spielberg, Lucas. There's a lot of talented guys out there obviously, and if you're a fan of films, you have to look at that stuff and learn from them.

Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.

It is not my ambition to marry a white woman or swim in a white pool. It is political equality that we want.

Proofs are to mathematics what spelling (or even calligraphy) is to poetry. Mathematical works do consist of proofs, just as poems do consist of words.

No one ever mentioned it, but thousands of men welcomed World War II as a way to escape their humdrum lives rather than a chance to fight for God and country.

I’ve met kids who haven’t had the best of parents but because they had something in them, or they had somebody at school help develop them, they turned out fine.

Don’t repeat yourself. It’s not only repetitive, it’s redundant, and people have heard it before.

But I've never felt objectified. Nothing you see me do is an accident.

My whole career can be summed up with 'Ignorance is bliss.' When you do not know better, you do not really worry about failing.

Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.

Christianity... is an Eastern religion.