I jumped 18 cars on a motorcycle, so I did almost everything.

You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what you're doing and make the action work for that and for the character.

I felt that if there wasn't going to be a good opportunity, then I would just go back to second units which I love, keep working with great directors, keep learning and knowing that the opportunity would come when the time was right.

Comedy. I think that's something I'd really like to do.

No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you're going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it.

So there was always a stunt coordinator on those films that was from Stunts Unlimited and I was just one of the young warriors from Stunts Unlimited that got to be a part of it because it was a big show and they needed a lot of guys.

Chris Columbus was really interesting to watch how he works with children.

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.

I jumped 18 cars on a motorcycle, so I did almost everything.

They do think it is a big summer movie and that's why they want to give it a great chance, but they don't want to go up against Spider-Man 2 or some of the other big movies, the $100 million films that are coming up.

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.

Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.

We're talking to New Line. They've got a couple projects they're interested in me doing and I'm having meetings at MGM. There's a lot of available projects.

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.

You don't get a chance to take a breath but when you do, you have some really good comedy moments that ease up on the tension that the movie is centered around which is Kim being kidnapped and her son and husband being kidnapped and the jeopardy that they're in.

They had some really cool rigged cars and things that were different that they would tow behind the camera car that were actually on these trailers that manipulated side to side and stuff like they were getting hit, and actually put the actor right in the middle of the chase.

Its pretty rare for companies to have a snooping policy, although it is getting more common.

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.

I mean, you have a general tone of it but it's pretty much you get to come in and you're going to flip this car and it's going to blow up and you're going to come out on fire and you go oh, that's cool, and then you get paid a lot of money.

Well, I think on second units it's all about execution. Because you come in there, you don't have to worry so much about the studio and all the other actors and all that.

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.

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

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.

It's just about going out and getting the shot, so I have a great understanding of how to execute it, so that really helps me, and also having a good understanding of all the action that I'm shooting, it helps me in determining how I'm going to capture it.

My purpose is to keep people busy and out of mischief - to create good and interesting jobs for them that help families stay together.

Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty?

Judgments are like a snowball. They stick to you. As time rolls along, the snowball becomes a boulder and then an avalanche.

Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.

Bragging may not bring happiness but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.

My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia, he was famous. He loved to see his picture in the paper. I wanted to be more famous than him.

One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.

Dignity is an affectation cute but eccentric like learning french or collecting scarves.

I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people.

Philanthropy is not about giving money but about solving problems. While well-meaning, the idea of writing a check and calling it 'philanthropy' is extremely short-sighted and unfortunately, extremely pervasive.

With indies, all they have is their script and it's very important to them. The characters are better drawn, the stories more precise and the experience greater than with studio films where sometimes they fill in the script as they're shooting.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Gangster movies are the inheritor of the Greek tragedy: it's the only genre where the audience will be disappointed if there's not a tragic ending.

Bobby Cox had the biggest influence in my career and probably the second- or third-biggest influence in my life.

Titles are valuable; they make us acquainted with many persons who otherwise would be lost among the rubbish.

I feel it's important to talk about the complex issues affecting us.

If you think somebody cares about you and believes your life is worth saving, how can you give up?

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense no one thinks he needs more of it than he already had.

It's very difficult to think that you're with someone that you know, and all of a sudden you don't know them: it turns out that they betray you. It's painful, but it's best to turn the page.

I could happily lean on a gate all the livelong day, chatting to passers-by about the wind and the rain. I do a lot of gate-leaning while I am supposed to be gardening; instead of hoeing, I lean on the gate, stare at the vegetable beds and ponder.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Beckham was a great inspiration to me growing up.

Obama's respect for the Constitution does not apply to protections against unreasonable search and seizure, as Obama's deeply intrusive National Security Agency programs prove.