Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.

- David R. Ellis

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 oth…

- David R. Ellis

Its pretty rare for companies to have a snooping policy, although it is getting more common.

- David R. Ellis

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…

- David R. Ellis

Chris Columbus was really interesting to watch how he works with children.

- David R. Ellis

Unless you go out and say what you stand for, other people will do it for you.

- David R. Ellis

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 t…

- David R. Ellis

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 mon…

- David R. Ellis

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 t…

- David R. Ellis