Unless you go out and say what you stand for, other people will do it for you.

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.

God, how I hate the fact that I know this stuff. It only proves that it is possible to learn by osmosis.

The principles of my works... are the extinction of expression, permanent covering and contemplative tranquillity... My ideal is the completely dark picture, full of some overwhelming silence.

I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas.

Statistics are like bikinis-they show a lot but not everything.

When you use your imagination anything can happen.

Necessity is God's veil.

Networking is rubbish; have friends instead.

When somebody has learned how to program a computer ... You're joining a group of people who can do incredible things. They can make the computer do anything they can imagine.

A recession is when your neighbour has to tighten his belt. A depression is when you have to tighten your own belt. And a panic is when you have no belt to tighten and your pants fall down.

Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced.