Screenplays are the hardest thing to try to get right. They look so simple when they work, but they really destroy your brain cells trying to get them there.

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.

As we've come to realize, the idea that security starts and ends with the purchase of a prepackaged firewall is simply misguided

She gave me this look – she might have been watching from a lifeboat as the ship went down. Or maybe it was the other way around.

We must turn the greatest collective challenge facing humankind today – climate change – into the greatest opportunity for common progress towards a sustainable future.

I'm into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing.

When you're cooking in the premier league of restaurants, when things go down, it has to be sorted immediately.

It's hard to sell records when you can get it for free everywhere.

Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.

Prying into others' private affairs is the preferred occupation of small minds.

So mothers everywhere take heart. The indoctrination you administer now may have unanticipated positive effects years later.

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