A lot of it had to do with when it's released and what's out in the marketplace, what's its competition.

It's very difficult to release an X-rated movie.

Our military thought that they couldn't get to Pearl Harbor, that it was too long a journey from Japan to get there, and they proved us wrong.

You have to start at the very bottom and you've got to do every job. I did that so I could understand what everybody does. I didn't become this huge producer overnight. It took many, many years.

Because you can't do anything halfway, you've got to go all the way in anything you do.

Well, I don't look back and celebrate. I just always worry about the next one.

I love entertaining people and this is entertainment.

We know as filmmakers where you draw the line.

If you have a crisis, whether on a ship or wherever, there are heroes who rise above it.

We want to create these dramatic situations, whether they are real or not, to entertain audiences.

Sometimes we'll only get one script in a year that we want to make that we feel is good enough.

The young man only looks to the future because he has lived little

Saying good-bye properly afforded me a measure of peace. It was a binding of a different sort, absent of the earth's power, but still hard proof that there is magic yet in the world.

You are lucky to feel sadness.

There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to find answers.

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

I had no identity [when I was 27] - I was terrified that somebody would ask me what I was doing, and I would have no answer.

I not only want to be loved, I want to be told that I'm loved.

Imagine a world where nothing is stable. In the West, we have three moving elements -- Air, Fire, Water -- but at least we can depend on the fourth.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.