Writing scripts is a laborious job that can be a real pain.

You have to keep surprising your audience.

I always have humour in my action movies. I think characters that make jokes under fire are more real. It somehow helps put you in their shoes.

The only way you can stay on top is to remember to touch bottom and get back to basics.

An action film can have too much action; picture an equaliser on a stereo, with all the knobs pegged at 10. It becomes a cacophony and is, ultimately, quite boring.

I love the idea of a super villain that doesn't wear a cape, that doesn't wear a super suit.

I have these guilty pleasures, these failed films that don't work at all, but I'll watch them if they're on. Like 'The Game'.

Once I started selling scripts for a great deal of money - action scripts, no less, which people tend to pooh-pooh anyway - then I started to get some backlash. Which I didn't mind.

I think it's very admirable, in a superhero movie, to be able to take a few risks.

I wrote all the time, but the idea of doing it professionally seemed like pie in the sky. Who gets paid to write? I grew up in Pittsburgh, so it wasn't really a notion that a lot of people pursue.

I wanted at one point to act, which is a weird thing for men to want to do. It's a very vain profession.

Em didn't truly understand about my panic attacks - no one did. But she'd never pushed me to explain, never tried to ditch me when things got weird, and never once looked at me like I was a freak.

I want to visit the snow in Antarctica before global warming turns it into a tropical paradise.

We are not perfect human beings, nor do we have to pretend to be, but it is necessary for us to be the best version of ourselves we can be.

The way to success is not a straight line segment. It's a dotted line with little packs of failure filling the potholes of broken edges inbetween.

Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

I can't make it fade.

Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.

dating you would be like a series of unnecessary root canals interspersed with occasional makeout sessions.

For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.