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.

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.

I hate being helpless, and I hate having to ask people to do things for me.

Barcelona is one of my favourite cities in the world. The fashion and people are just so effortlessly cool.

Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age.

The greatest sin is judgment without knowledge.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living.

I remember when I was that girl crying because I was so excited to finally meet Lita. To have girls crying over me is surreal.

Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.

Some comedians love their characters. I don't fall in love with mine. In fact, I get tired of them very fast. You have to be willing to throw it all away.

Quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean love in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and you never love anyone quite that way again.

I will be a historical painter.

Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea.

Often the hands grasp more quickly than the head.

I have a jaundiced eye but a young mind.

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

'Dandelion Wine' became one of the few books that I returned to time and again, and while not anywhere near the story crafter as Mr. Bradbury, I hope I managed to absorb by osmosis some of his techniques.

Didn't you know I'm going to be the greatest, most entertaining author and artist in the world? Well, don't feel badly, I didn't either!

You cant criticize geometry. Its never wrong.

I can't pretend to be enjoying this. I can't pretend I'm enjoying going out there and playing this style.

I've been mainly a happy boy in my life. I married the right girl and we did what we wanted to do.

Wiffle ball was my first experience hitting left-handed.

The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.

I took my daughter to the father daughter dance and I cried like a little baby. Shes 11 years old so seeing her get dressed up and pretty made me cry.

More effective than giving away half my fortune before I die is finding a way to help people have a good-paying job.