There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.

Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.

Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.

I love action movies.

Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom.

Sony is the coolest studio. They are really amazing. I think part of it comes from they're not an American corporation. They don't work by quite the same rules. And their studio heads have a lot of autonomy.

Arnold Schwarzenegger cut teacher's salaries and parks and libraries rather than raise taxes for the many California millionaires and billionaires.

Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

I don't think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change, but I guarantee its replacement will still be based in immature behavior from mature figures.

If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

There's nothing more American than movies.

If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be.

Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.