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

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

The bad guys are not typical; they are not just bad, they are interesting. They might be good or bad.

I think there are a lot more relationship scenes in my movies that people tend to overlook. A lot of scenes really feel real and are about the characters.

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

I think what makes a good action film is a story that gets you involved. Just action, by itself, is not going to work.

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

Lara Croft is such a strong individual, she's very driven, she doesn't need a man, she's speaks her own mind, and that she's in control of her own life. It's a lot of what women want and have.

In regards to The Haunting, people compared it to the old movie, which is unfair. We didn't have the rights to the movie. I couldn't duplicate a single thing because that would have been legal infringement.

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

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.

When I heard about the first Tomb Raider, I was very interested and I would have liked to have directed that. When I was approached for the second film, I was delighted.

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

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

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.

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.

We are creating a fabulous franchise with an incredible female action hero.

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.

The quality of CGI, audiences are now so used to it. They don't know what is CGI and what is real.

I worked on movies with a lot of violence when I was a cinematographer, and it always bothered me. It's a personal thing. I wouldn't want my kids to see it. I certainly believe that freedom of expression shouldn't be taken away, but I also believe you can make movies that are thrilling and exciting without too much violence.

Technology is a major tool in exploring and challenging your creativity, but it can also overtake your creativity... My mind goes very fast, and I can see all kinds of images that would be spectacular on the screen. But they would cost so much money, and would they really make the story that much better?

Using my imagination and creativity is exciting to me.

We're surrounded by violence, and we see so much of it on TV, especially the news programs. We almost become numb. And that forces filmmakers to try to outdo themselves... They say, 'Look what I can do,' and it becomes like a showoff thing. To me, that's ridiculous. Filmmaking isn't a contest!

Actually, we got signed in November of 2000 with Dreamworks which is the most amazing label. We have friends on other labels and though we are not selling millions of records, yet, they treat us with tons of respect and give us some very good guidance.

Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.

Basically, Apollo was more of a mediator between Zeus in Olympus and Perseus on Earth. He played much more of an active role.

No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney.

Israel deserves America's friendship in reality - not just in rhetoric.

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart hes going to get sick on it.

America's highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose.

If you tell someone you're doing something innovative, they'll think you're doing something innovative.

I think that's what we're all trying to do as actors, is create some sort of passion from people and allow them to have something to really care about and something they enjoy and look forward to on Saturday, Sunday, Monday, whatever it is, where you get to sit down and escape.

I look forward to the holiday season every year.

If you see everything through the lens, you are constantly composing pictures. I think in pictures; I don't think in text.

I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.

It can't be all you. Just like you need air to fly a kite. It's not the kite. It's the air.

A deep breath is a technique with which we minimize the number of instances where we say what we do not mean … or what we really think.

I never eat salad. I make sure I don't put a lot of junk into my system, but I hate vegetables!

I don't understand computers. I've been unable to construct a working mental model of how they do what they do. I can break software by looking at it. I can blow anything up. Without trying. It's sort of like being a dowser. And this extreme elaborate clumsiness on my part is actually something people will pay me for. It's quite wonderful.

Safety is a fence and fences are for sheep.

Sometimes people come out of school right now and they immediately want a job doing something. And there's nothing wrong with just listening and learning and watching.

The Lord's Prayer is the most perfect piece of poetry. I always feel at peace and moved when I recite it.

I would love to work with Tom Hardy. Maybe do something crazy or dramatic that is different for me.

Anyone who has read a Trollope novel knows that women did not have to wait until 1960 to feel trapped.

Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.

The degree to which campaigns have become dominated by marketing is breaking the spirit of democracy, and we're all just so sick of it, across party lines.

Among physicists, I'm respected I hope.