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

You cannot out-train bad nutrition. It’s impossible.

There are 16 year olds competing at the olympics and I still push on pull doors & struggle getting through the whole day without a nap.

I like a lot of Tom Cruise’s roles, he’s this action hero.

I never understood actors who could just wait around.

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.

You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.

Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.

Having been an actor and a writer for so long – 20 years or so – I felt that it would be daft to go to one’s grave without having directed. It’s a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.

Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.

If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution.