Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.
I was making a lot of independent movies before the independent movement.
I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand.
I have all this time between projects, and I'm not so sure that's a healthy thing. It's scary, because at 36 I'm woefully unqualified for anything else.
I don't find movies interesting. I just want to do the movies that made me interested in getting into movies, and they're few and far between.
You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie.
I would never do something like Speed 2 again. If Id wanted to make those kind of movies I could have signed up for five of them while it was in the can. It wasnt worth it to me. That was just an innocuous, boring movie.
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone. You can hide underground or you can build a wall around yourself, but somebody's going to come along and screw up the works.
I am concerned about a president [Bill Clinton] under oath, being alleged to have committed perjury. I hope that he can rebut that and prove that did not happen.
First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.