“The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.”

“I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.”

“I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.”

“I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies.”

“If your goal is to be the biggest movie star in the world, a 10-movie contract is gold. It was never my goal. Up until now, I made movies - and I have a nice house, a nice car. I'm fortunate, happy and grateful. Life is good.”

“I kinda see my current position like this: Here's your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before 'Chuck Woolery' rings the bell.”

“Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better.”

“I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.”

“I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know.”

“Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.”

“Film lovers are sick people.”

“A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.”

“I made some truly awful movies. 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes.”

“It's hard to incorporate dance into movies I think.”

“I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.”

“We are the movies and the movies are us.”

“I have eclectic tastes in the movies I want to do.”

“People talk about mumblecore but I prefer bumblecore, hyper-realistic bee movies about how bees really are.”

“I learned a lesson which I didn't heed: Don't put yourself in your movies. It's too much.”

“Skinniness is not your friend when you're over 40. I'd like to gain a good 10 pounds, but I did always have a fat, round face that plagued me when I was young. When I started to make movies, I couldn't look at myself.”

“In America, we have so many movies and so much media about the Islamic world, the sub-continental world, but it's not a conversation, it's a monologue. It's always from one point of view. 'If we don't tell our own stories, no one will tell them' is my mantra.”