We need a very strong military to protect the freedoms we do have.

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.

Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.

O bees, sweet bees!" I said; "that nearest field Is shining white with fragrant immortelles Fly swiftly there and drain those honey wells.

The will of the world is always a will to death, a will to suicide. We must not accept this suicide, and we must so act that it cannot take place.

I am really attracted to films. It's nice to do something new, all the time. That's why I like being an actor.

I'm attracted to things that scare me, like 'Psycho,' my favorite Hitchcock movie.

There's no such thing as a free lunch, unless you have a coupon for a free lunch...or someone gives you a lunch...never mind.

The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio, and acted upon, the male is actio, the mover.

What I am looking for is a certain grace.

We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try.

It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.