Jerry Bruckheimer

What I do is try to stay away from the hot subjects.

Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me.

I only make movies I want to go see.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.

I get asked all the time if I want to do more dramatic acting, and I really doubt that dramatic actors get asked if they want to do more comedies. I don't really know why that is.