- I want an explosion the size of Cleveland.
- [After seeing the poor box office of Streets of Fire (1984).] "Tonight is what it means to be dead."
- When California provides the same value as other locations, I'd gladly shoot all my pictures here.
- ...My advice to young Producers... The only way to succeed is to get behind a screen-play you really believe in.
- I'm not in the business to make art; I'm in it to make money to buy art.
- [on his contract with Warner Studios]: Maybe I will continue with Warner and maybe I won't. I hope I do.
- On his recent film: It's a little movie, but a big little movie.
- There aren't a lot of guys like me left. But I'm a war horse. I've been through it all. And you know something about war horses? Through the sleet, through the snow,they just keep going.
- The core of the movie business remains intact and it's not descending in scope. Studios want movies that are bigger than ever.
- [on movies]: That's how fascinated I was with movies. I was fascinated with the lifestyle of these guys--how they lived, how they ran the show. They guys lived like Saudi princes.
- (On Lethal Weapon film) We blasted a toilet out of that window. Over there, we drove a car straight into the living room.
- (On the film "Brewster's Millions) Fantasies about spending are irresistible, the best! Who wouldn't want to indulge the luxury of squandering millions and millions of dollars?
- (On money) I hunted with a credit card.
- [on Total Recall (1990)] Fantastic, fantastic. It's going to blow everyone away.
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