But it's much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with those very important blue-collar relationship themes. But it's more visually beautiful to show things blowing up. It just gives you more on the screen.

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

Sigmund Freud

Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.

Linus Pauling

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

Ronald Reagan

I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.

Petronius

By knowing each man's ruling passion, we are sure of pleasing him; and yet each has his fancies, opposed to his true good, in the very idea which he has of the good.

Blaise Pascal

It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who've told American stories that were personal and universal as well.

Cameron Crowe

We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.

Tarja Halonen

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

Henry David Thoreau

Some of the things you read you get an immediate reaction to so I've stopped reading things now. I do worry about my family though. Some people do try some nasty things to get at them and try and get a reaction from them.

Russell Crowe

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

Benjamin Franklin

He that loveth, flieth, runneth, and rejoiceth. He is free, and cannot be held in. He giveth all for all, and hath all in all, because he resteth in one highest above all things, from whom all that is good flows and proceeds.

Thomas Kempis

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Notebook E,