You might have been able to fool people the first time, or something, but you really can't make a successful sequel today unless people really, really liked the predecessor.

I think that if you're creating an environment completely or...in my research, what I've learned is that if it's a CG world or a lot of visual effects, you're almost better doing that in post.

I think the combination of action and the combination of comedy are two really, really good genres to meld together.

I think there was always something that everybody wishes they could relive in high school.

I think certain movies are right for 3D. I think certain movies are not right for 3D. And I think the specialness of 3D will be worn off if every movie becomes 3D.

I have a ton of fun, I mean luckily I've been balancing a ton of projects for a lot of years now, and I'm better when I'm busy and I just do my job in a way where I really totally compartmentalize.

I think that when audiences find a movie that they don't expect to like, it adds great word of mouth.

I hate high expectations because they're hard to beat.

If anybody would have told me I'd be making number seven Fast & Furious, I would have said, "You're crazy."

to judge darkness as bad or wrong is akin to judging whether up is better than down, or whether blue is better than red

There is a lot of willful incompetence in high altitude astronomy that is in the process of coming to light.

Personal growth centers on two types of people, the ones we like and the ones that drive us crazy.

I always find it funny when I watch actors talking about, 'I chose to do this part.' A lot of times it's 'you're lucky to get the job.' We're like, 'Thank you so much.'

Ride at any fence hard enough, and the chances are you'll get over. The harder you ride the heavier the fall, if you get a fall; but the greater the chance of your getting over.

Words were like objects, making the idea more solid -- less a poisonous gas and more a ... cube of crystallized thought.

Nothing resembles a person as much as the way he dies.

Our success depends on us, our unity, and our willingness to submit to the will of Allah (God).

But the explanations fell apart in her hands. Everything true was too hard to write--he was too much to lose. Everything she felt for him was too hot to touch.

Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.