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I don't have any regrets.
I'm definitely not a nerd.
I would love a robot butler.
I'm a laugher and a lover of comedy.
I fear God and respect God and love God.
I'm constantly being visually stimulated.
'Vacation' means titillating my taste buds.
I look for stuff that I'm passionate about.
I love movie directors. I don't care who it is.
I love that feeling of going into a packed theater.
Less money sometimes allows you to be more creative.
When you're the director, you kinda do all the work.
I want to print books by people in the film industry.
You can't show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.
In my public life, I'm just a guy who enjoys having fun.
I love 'Guitar Hero,' and I think it's a part of pop culture.
I've been a book collector since I was young, since I was a kid.
Rehearsal? What’s that? Rehearsal’s for fags. Rehearsal. Not much.
Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.
I'm not going to turn down an Oscar, but I'm not strategizing for one.
Everyone who knows me knows that I don't have a prejudiced bone in my body.
I never dreamed I would be producing the Oscars. That was a huge deal for me.
In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business.
I learn from every movie I do because on every movie, I have a different experience.
Woody Allen is in his '70s and he's making movies, so I look forward to getting there.
Before I did 'Rush Hour,' I was a big fan of Jackie Chan movies and I had seen all of them.
I hate the iPhone. I love the BlackBerry - BlackBerry wins in my opinion. The iPhone is a toy.
I'd want to marry Cate Blanchett, date Kate Bosworth, and spend the weekend with Elisha Cuthbert.
When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element.
Having love in your heart doesn't count for much if what comes out of your mouth is ugly and bigoted.
When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.
I used to date Olivia Munn... But when she was 'Lisa,' that was the problem. She wasn't Asian back then.
Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job.
I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.
Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world.
My movies are pretty tight and they're pretty well-paced. I'm not one to make long movies. I don't dwell on stuff.
I've watched 'Being There' over 50 times, and every time I watch it, I love every frame. I just wish I had directed it myself.
There's no difference between a tacky Jew from Miami and a rap star. They both want the Cadillac and the Rolex with the diamonds.
You've got to think about how to do things for the right price. You have to shoot in different places to be creative and get tax rebates.
My mom had me when she was 16, and I was an only child, which is probably why I received a lot of love and didn't miss that my father wasn't around.
Do I have a small movie in me? Yeah, probably, when I'm 60. But I'm not Hal Ashby, I'm not Roman Polanski. I'm true to myself. Whether you like it or not.
I'm not tied to budgets. I'm tied to the story that I want to tell, and how much it's going to cost is up to whatever the economic situation of the studio is.
I'm trying to be a little bit more mature about my choices and think about what I want to direct next, instead of just jumping into a movie 'cause I want to do it.
I'm not invited to the Vanity Fair dinner where they watch the Oscars - or even the Oscars themselves - so I sit at home and watch it with a bunch of close friends.
Would it be nice to win a film award one day? Yes. But the critics are going to have to wait till I'm ready. Right now, my gift is making big movies that audiences want to see.
At the end of the day, audiences just want to laugh and be entertained. They want to escape from their reality, and that's why we make movies, to get people to escape from the realities.
I’m a hypochondriac. Before I go all the way, I send the girl to the doctor and check them for everything. My doctor has a test to tell if you’re going to catch something in the future even.
When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made 'Rush Hour.' And 'Rush Hour' really came out of the fact that I grew up watching 'Beverly Hills Cop' and '48 Hrs.'
I learn more from the audience than I can from anybody else. Not from what they write on the scorecards, but how they respond to the movie while they're watching it - where they laugh and where they react.
People can criticise all day long, I think I've proven myself, I think I deliver. And I agree, box office does not mean a movie's good, but I feel like I'm making good movies and I'm delivering in box office.