Maybe I have just a younger voice than many other directors.

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.

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.

Literature is fighting for its very life because compromise is mistook for ambition, and joining up is preferred to standing out …

The depressed person is mired in the past

This illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise.

I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.

Those who want nothing are apt to forget how many there are who want every thing.

I don't have faith, I have experience.

An act of renunciation is an act of union with God. The Divine Master looks lovingly upon a person who gains a victory over self.

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.

There is nothing more important than appearing to be religious.

I can sing these tunes the rest of my life, but when you get the four of us together, it's magical onstage. That's Motley Crüe.