I like to make pictures about people who make a difference.

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.

motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

We wait, starving for moments of high magic to inspire us, but life is full of common enchantment waiting for our alchemists eyes to notice.

It takes courage to own up your actions that hurt others, to look Into the eye and to mean the sorry, To accept the mistake and not deny, all of this needs courage.

We need to broaden our sympathies both in space and time - and perceive ourselves as part of a long heritage, and stewards for an immense future.

People who laugh together generally don't kill each other.

The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech.

Why not sit around a Beverly Hills pool collecting residual cheques? That is not the kind of life I want.

And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.

He didn't look insane or inhuman. He did look uncooperative.

Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.