Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me.

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.

No one has direct access to your mind like you do. That's why introspection remains a valid technique even after the invention of brain scanners.

Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least.

We need to focus our attention on Iran, because if you miss Iran, you are not going to get ISIS. The two are inextricably connected because one causes the other.

My overriding belief is that it is always possible for criminals to improve and that by its very finality the death penalty contradicts this.

One of the hardest tasks as a human being is knowing when to keep an open mind, and when not to.

By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave?

England is a profoundly bizarre place that has produced thousands of bands the world has worshipped.

When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

Our thoughts create our reality - where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.

If there are things saying wrong about Sam Allardyce, believe you me, I will be fighting them.