72 Quotes by Michael Bay

I go out there to win. People don’t care if you die in this business. The only way I get back is with success.

You get the most 3D effect when it starts about three to four seconds, that’s when it starts feeling 3D. And then what you do, quick shots are always flat.

A lot of directors don’t want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it.

I was talking to one of the writers about our target audience, and he was insulted that I used that term. But if you’re given $60 million to make a film, you’d better know who your target audience is. That’s who’s going to pay back the bills you run up.

For me, the great joy is to watch an audience watching what I’ve made. To hear not a peep from the audience at the right moment, and then to hear the laughs and the cheers.

I filmed my first little Super 8 movie by stealing my mum’s Super 8 camera where I set some fires to some of the models, which actually caught the drapes of my bedroom on fire! The fire department came. I was grounded for three weeks and it was my very first movie.

Some nights I sleep like a baby. Other nights it’s, Oh God, I just came up with a bomb shot.

A car is a big thing for anyone going into adulthood, it’s a big seminal moment.

I’m one of the few directors that actually shoots a lot in camera.