“There are a lot of movies I've done that come and go, and don't really establish a growing fan base.”

“Awards were made in Hollywood, in whatever the time it was created. They're to promote each other's movies. You give me an award, I give you an award and people will believe that we are great movies and they'll go to see them. It's still the same.”

“Luckily, I think, I never really wanted to be famous, I just wanted to make movies.”

“I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. I'm not a pure writer. I use words as the score for kinetic imagistic representations.”

“I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.”

“I've had nine of my books adapted to film, and almost all were enjoyable. I've been very lucky with Hollywood, and look forward to more movies being adapted. But I don't get involved in that process. I know nothing about making movies and I stay away from it and hope for the best.”

“I don't like to watch my own movies - I fall asleep in my own movies.”

“I actually have a thing about proper nouns. They clang on my ear in a weird way when I hear them dropped into movies.”

“I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?”