We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie.

One of the most amazing locations I've ever been is the top of the volcano in Tanzania, Africa. It's an actual volcano where you really have this lava every day.

Angelina wanted to make sure that any fighting in the movie would be comparable to any male actor. Everything from stick fighting to horse riding was real to her.

I had a very strong-willed mother, who I totally adored. She was always in control of her life.

I think the audience would like to see movies that are stunning to watch. I really think they'd like to see spectacles.

It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive.

I really believe action will always be there and will never disappear.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

This film, Tomb Raider 2, is a big challenge. It's quite exhausting.

Summer movies are spectacles; that's what you pay 10 dollars to see. You want to get teased by effects sometimes. I think that will never stop.

Being in an area of the planet where scientists believe mankind started is quite amazing.

knowledge of who we are prevents us from being distracted by the demands of our surroundings

Just as a fish doesn't know it is wet, so companies often can't see or feel the very opportunities where they are swimming

Though the captives' resistance was dangerous, through such acts, dignity was preserved, and through dignity, life itself.

Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading?

I enjoyed working with everyone on the cast [of the Ghost Team]. We knew we were making a pretty weird movie.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

However you learn and whatever your circumstances, an education that prepares you for the world is every child's right.

I wish I had Wonder Woman's magic lasso like her to make people tell the truth.

The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six.

All that we are not stares back at what we are.