Anybody who's really successful has doubts.

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 answer is in your dreams, the ones you dream while you’re asleep and the ones you dream while you’re awake.

Make something beautiful of your life.

More often than not, the easy decisions are the wrong decisions, and sometimes we feel like we're going backward when we're actually moving forward.

I do enjoy reading some science fiction.

Beware of absolutes. There are many gods.

People don't know what it's like standing up there onstage, when you have a wall of people smiling at you.

Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken.

That which is inherently nonfinanceable is financed. That which is inherently financeable is not financed. And the illogic of poverty amidst eagerness and ability to produce plenty goes on.

As a kid, I always had a super vivid imagination, like "Man, I like those shoes, but they should've made them in purple" or like, "Man, I wonder how people make songs."

It would be great to see somebody like Kid Rock kissing a man. But I'm sure that he wouldn't like the prospect of it put to him, and I won't even go there with Eminem.