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.

What I do is try to stay away from the hot subjects.

Hunky Heroes, rescuing distressed women, captive princesses, and girls without wheels since 1684. p. 450

sometimes we take action, sometimes we take pills.

You shouldn’t ask a question until you are sure you want to hear the answer.

If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.

Most of us live in parts of the world where we don't expect to see much, and we wouldn't necessarily notice things that are crashing.

Anytime something becomes a success in this way you always get imitators. I'm an imitator of the guys I love. I imitate people like Frank Miller, who is a huge inspiration to me.

In this day and age, we need to revise the old saying to read, "Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

Every thought of yours is a real thing - a force.

Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.

[I like] Die Hard and Paul Verhoeven movies. S - t like that.