“You understand what good directing is, you can identify it pretty easily.”

I had fun to be a little bit of a nerd.

Everybody’s human. You are only on this planet for a little bit of time.

I’m pathetic when it comes to the Internet and getting stuff done.

I want to be a man’s man – not a kid actor or a glitzy pop star but a no-bullshit leading man.

My old man is a man of few words.

We spend a lot of time trying to keep all that stuff very private. In this day in age, it’s impossible. It’s out in the ether and people send stuff to my house all the time. People show up at my house sometimes.

It’s hard to nap on Saturday or the weekends.

They were actually really nice to me [in Fast 8]. We had BBQs every day on set. We had a lot of laughs and a lot of good times.

People assumed that I would have everything handed to me, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. I was on my own just doing the grind.

I grew up on movie sets and traveling the world with my pops.

My father always told me that. Nobody knows anything, so don’t listen to anyone else.

Some outlets shouldn’t even call themselves news providers; they’re just entertainment gossip without any sort of accountability or fact-checking.

The motto I live by is you can’t out-train bad nutrition . You’ve got to just eat healthy. So like 90 per cent of it is diet, 10 per cent of it is working out.

I want to live a really positive ass life. No matter what is in the media about me or what’s said in the comments.

I think you just learn a lot of stuff in general about all the stuff he [Edward Snowden] released. I think there’s probably a lot that we don’t know. That’s what is really interesting.

I’m a fan of horror movies that have really good stories.

The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.

We look directly into our suffering rather than try to become happy. The happiness that arises from this approach is reliable.

It is to make it nurture and grow that I write my script- it is directing it that makes my tree blossom and bear fruit.

Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied… That’s why they can keep on working.

While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.

What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.

I don’t think my father had a direct influence on me, but I do think, more or less, I was influenced by his independent individualism.

You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.