Quotes

I want an explosion the size of Cleveland.

[After seeing the poor box office of Streets of Fire (1984).] "Tonight is what it means to be dead."

When California provides the same value as other locations, I'd gladly shoot all my pictures here.

...My advice to young Producers... The only way to succeed is to get behind a screen-play you really believe in.

I'm not in the business to make art; I'm in it to make money to buy art.

[on his contract with Warner Studios]: Maybe I will continue with Warner and maybe I won't. I hope I do.

On his recent film: It's a little movie, but a big little movie.

There aren't a lot of guys like me left. But I'm a war horse. I've been through it all. And you know something about war horses? Through the sleet, through the snow,they just keep going.

The core of the movie business remains intact and it's not descending in scope. Studios want movies that are bigger than ever.

[on movies]: That's how fascinated I was with movies. I was fascinated with the lifestyle of these guys--how they lived, how they ran the show. They guys lived like Saudi princes.

(On Lethal Weapon film) We blasted a toilet out of that window. Over there, we drove a car straight into the living room.

(On the film "Brewster's Millions) Fantasies about spending are irresistible, the best! Who wouldn't want to indulge the luxury of squandering millions and millions of dollars?

(On money) I hunted with a credit card.

[on Total Recall (1990)] Fantastic, fantastic. It's going to blow everyone away.