I make movies based on gut.

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.

Success teaches us nothing only failure teaches.

Seek a man that doesn't ask you to prove your love. Seek a man that will prove God's love.

If the pursuit of perfection is a way to prove our worth, in the end the pursuit will only prove our imperfections.

The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.

Most leaders are indispensable but to produce a major social change many ordinary people must also be involved.

We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny.

Going back down to the minors is the toughest thing to handle in baseball.

Times change, people change, thought and feeling take new shapes, put on fresh garments, sons bow their heads unwillingly to that which enraptured their fathers.

The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity.

... be indulgent toward those who ... are afraid of the aloneness that you trust.