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" I've always had a soft spot for comic books. "

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" People are losing jobs, people need to be entertained, and I want to make movies that parents and children can look forward to seeing, that can become a kind of family ritual. "

" I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection. "

" It may come as a surprise to people, but I'm actually quite boring and normal. What do I do? I read books. I drive my kid to school. I have lunch with my wife. I pick my kid up from school. I go home. "

" I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies. "

" We do see Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi and Chow Yun Fat, but it's very rare to see the Chinese male actor in Hollywood movies, which is something I take great umbrage with. You know, my son is Asian. He may want to direct one day; he may want to be an actor like his father - and I want that to be open to him. "

" I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre. "

" One of the pluses of getting older is you set some limits. "

" Helen Mirren is someone that I have really admired ever since I saw her in 'Excalibur.' That was the first thing I said to her. 'I loved you as Morgan Le Fay.' "

" All of my characters have a glint of madness. "

" Guy Pearce is very precise and clear about understanding the rhythm and the music of a scene. "

" I think the paparazzi might have chased me out of Los Angeles. "

" As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious. "

" In this day and age, where you have a lot of comic book movies made every day, and most of them are really good boys, it's important to have a couple bad boys out there, too. "

" My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting. "

" I want people to discover my movies, and however they choose to receive it is their business. "

" Having been a father for 19 years I realise fatherhood has changed me. "

" I want to make all kinds of movies. I do want to make big movies that are a lot of fun to go to, but I also want to make movies that are going to stimulate some thought and maybe raise some awareness. "

" Acting is like any other art form, in that you have the option to go very big or go very small. "

" I hit the ground running, without a lot of training, so I had to do whatever I could do to survive as a professional, and if that meant being that character 24/7 and acting out, I was going to do that. I lived those characters, I brought them home with me. "

" I think it's no secret that I've tried to take chances in my career and also in my life, and I believe to not live in fear. "

" Children, to me, are of the utmost importance. They're really the future, aren't they? "

" You can choose your family sometimes. You can choose people, it could be a teacher, it could be a professor, it could be someone you work with that actually genuinely cares about you and wants you to succeed. "

" Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract. "

" Snakes are sometimes perceived as evil, but they are also perceived as medicine. If you look at an ambulance, there's the two snakes on the side of the ambulance. The caduceus, or the staff of Hermes, there's the two snakes going up it, which means that the venom can also be healing. "

" One of my goals is to have a base near mainland China. I think Hong Kong would be a good match for me. I like being in Hong Kong. "

" Celebrity is a word I take great umbrage with. I'm actively anti-celebrity. "

" I'm not a trained actor. I'm someone who is autodidactic and learned on my own. "

" I have a love / hate relationship with the city of New Orleans, which is the strongest kind of relationship. "

" I have dogs, and it's no secret that I find reptiles interesting, but the thing about reptiles is that they really just wanna be left alone, and I understand them. It's, 'Don't pick me up, stop holding me, don't look at me, just leave me alone.' I have to admit, sometimes I feel like that. "