Any time you can create something that gets to a large audience is fantastic. And television still gets you to a huge audience.

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.

When you were born, you were given a one-way ticket. You can never come back and visit your past.

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

The perspective is more important than the perception

Saying of the ProphetTruthSpeaking the truth to the unjust is the best of holy wars.

Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain.

Forever bound to one another.

'Slumdog' was my first movie, and I had never been to India before - I was just a teenager in the U.K. with my headphones and my Nike shoes. What did I know about growing up in a slum?

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.

Look at the piano. You'll notice that there are white notes and black notes. Figure out the difference between them and you'll be able to make whatever kind of music you want.

I had wanted to be a dancer when I was younger. But at some point I figured out I was a better singer.