I wanted out of the spotlight, so I subtracted myself for a few years. I just tried to do a couple producing projects. Of course, the problem is, in ….

You can just start writing, but you're gonna go off on 10 or 12 starts and weird tangents, and yeah you'll have those pages to use later - to gift wr….

I felt that in a way, I hated the writing process so much. It's excruciating, as I'm sure you know, and so lonely being in the solitary prison of my ….

The only way you can stay on top is to remember to touch bottom and get back to basics..

I'll say, what makes me happy about making movies is, every once in a while through movies we find a kind of honesty. There's an honesty in fiction t….

Once you've got a concept and a sense of themes and what it's about, then you can start to add your plot and sort of Tetris in all of the elements th….

The worst of the action films are the ones where everything is one shout from beginning to finish. And there's no differentiation between beats, like….

An action movie should, like any other, follow the narrative traditions of literature. That means there should be subtlety, a slow build and a gradua….

I always have humour in my action movies. I think characters that make jokes under fire are more real. It somehow helps put you in their shoes..

It sometimes is better to write in a more directed, focused way when the pages are aimed at something already, a mission statement or a basic spine t….

Sometimes I'll have a scene that strikes me, I just feel like writing a scene, a mini-story that seems like it might lead somewhere. But that is such….

You have to keep surprising your audience..

I thought of Joel Silver. He never changes. He's sort of the unmoving, unchanging rock of Gibraltar in the otherwise-shifting world of Hollywood. He'….

I think about the audience in the sense that I serve as my own audience. I have to please myself the way, if I saw the movie in a theater, I would be….

I love the idea of a super villain that doesn't wear a cape, that doesn't wear a super suit..

I think it's very admirable, in a superhero movie, to be able to take a few risks..

When you are making a lot of money people forget you are trying to be creative and they picture you laughing all the way to the bank ... especially w….

Here's what I didn't know when I was starting out that I now know…I thought when you were starting out it was really hard to write because you hadn't….

Once I started selling scripts for a great deal of money - action scripts, no less, which people tend to pooh-pooh anyway - then I started to get som….

You have to be in California in order to write or direct movies. People say, "Oh, I'm gonna do it from Pittsburgh. I'm just gonna deliver scripts or ….

I'm ashamed to say this, but I watched every episode of 'Starsky and Hutch' as a kid. I loved that show, but now I think it's stupid - they'd have a ….