“But the action film genre is gonna have to come up with some new bad guys.”

It doesn’t matter how many people I’ve killed. What matters is how I get along with the people who are still alive.

All the films are hits before you turn the camera on. It’s only in the execution that they fail. I’ve been less than happy with the way a couple of films were edited, but it’s a director’s prerogative and you gotta go with it.

There’s a long history of all kinds of cop films… But all these films are really about the same thing: the good guys triumphing over the bad guys.

Everybody, no matter how old you are, is around 24, 25 in their heart.

I just have more fun when I get to try new things – and the action film genre has kind of painted itself into a corner, copied itself so many times and it has basically run out of bad buys.

Negative, I am a meat popsicle.

I think I’m even more open and more giving as a father now. I pay more attention now because I value it more and I’m less caught up with my career.

I hate government. I’m apolitical. Write that down. I’m not a Republican.

I have just as many liberal ideas as I have conservative ideas that I argue with myself sometimes.

I think I’m much more afraid of making a mistake in raising my daughters than I would be with any work that I do, as an actor. It’s a much higher scale of fear, raising kids.

After I did the first Die Hard I said I’d never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground.

I just try to go to work, and concentrate on coming home to my girls.

Die Hard 2 was okay. It was a little outside the template but it was okay, a hard movie to make technically. Did well at the box office. Successful.

Nine million terrorists in the world and I gotta kill one with feet smaller than my sister.

You wouldn’t want to see a movie where the bad guys triumph over the good guys all the time. You’d get bummed out, and you’d just stay at home and watch the news.

No one ever thinks about what the hell is going to happen 25 years from now.

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.

I love doing the action stuff. It’s soooo much fun!

No one can decide what you should do, what course of action you should take to get where you wanna go, except for yourself.

Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.

We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.