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

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

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.

Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.

There are places we fear, places we dream, places whose exiles we became and never learned it until, sometimes, too late.

Do we ignore the needyto spite the greedy?Or share and defenddespite those who pretend?

Newness inspires me. New opportunities. New places. New experiences. Learning new things, new skills. New roles!

Anybody who wants to rule a group will find that if this group is quarreling among themselves they leave you alone.

I always wondered if I was supposed to be excellent at something or not. I think, because of that, I have a lot of insecurities about myself.

Does anybody in this room really believe that [I win]? Give me a break.

I'm often uncertain of what's expected of a movie.

Trying to convince someone that they are a racist or they have White Privilege - if it's in the air they breathe and the culture supports them, sometimes they never have to think about it at all.

If all the Atheists & Agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Sciences & less than 1% of the prison population.