Dramatics are what keep you in the seats.

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.

I know, I know, I'm being a girl.

When you know how, it's a pleasure to burn

For to-day I take or give

Look at every action movie in Hollywood. Every leading man from Spider-Man to Batman to James Bond, 'Bourne Identity', every one of them possesses martial arts skills.

If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.

I don't think the American people, if you look historically, elect angry candidates.

Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

A text is evolutionary by its very nature.

Christianity is not about moving away from vice to virtue. It's moving away from virtue to Christ.

Men and statues that are admired ire an elevated situation have a very different effect upon us when we approach them; the first appear less than we imagined them, the last bigger.