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!

Fear cuts deeper than swords.

Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is.

One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.

I have to make my bones with Hollywood to get in. And when I do maybe I'll metamorphose from Mr. Muscles or whatever it is I am now and become an irascible tosser.

A true genius admits that heshe knows nothing.

I'm not thuggy.

I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.

It's an embarrassment of riches because you have directors who don't better. You end up with so much stuff going on the screen that you don't know where to look, and that's what I consider self-indulgent.

Everything is expressed through relationship. Colour can exist only through other colours, dimension through other dimensions, position through other positions that oppose them. That is why I regard relationship as the principal thing.

I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.

My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places - while the next five are basically about being in your 30s.

I guess there's nothing funny about a guy who looks conservative and has it all together, but it's satisfying to see a conservative guy crumbling inside, and I think a lot of American comedy has cottoned on to that.

The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.

Large elements in Congress and the public were willing to fight for victory but wanted to be very sure that the struggle was not contaminated by any moral principles.

It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.

You may say I'm a dreamer. But I'm not the only one.

The only music we ever listened to out in the piney woods was Roy Acuff and the Grand Ole Opry. That was the only night of the week I was allowed to lay in the middle of the bed with Mama and Daddy, just long enough to hear Roy Acuff sing; then I had to go back to bed.

Police blog or entertainment news, it's just good to see your name in print.

I didn't see deep emotion from my parents. It was all very polite and very surface. I never knew how anybody was feeling.

I always leaned toward free jazz... experimental jazz and progressive jazz. I feel like jazz is just part of the flavor and palette that you have as a musician to experiment with.

We need to understand the difference between freedom of religion - which is absolutely guaranteed and I would fervently defend. Sharia law is politics; it's not religion. If you say that a woman is voluntarily going to be of lesser value than a man, which is in sharia law, can we allow that?

The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

Being around lots of people drains me, and alone time is essential to my well-being.

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.