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.

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.

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.

The deepest and most sublime hatred is a hatred which creates ideals and transforms values—something whose like has never been seen on earth

Full of beautiful grace so we steal their space, and death comes quickly.

We may not be interested in chaos but chaos is interested in us

Look at us. One bleeding body, one corpse, and a husk who's been half dead for years. No one who took an objective look at this room could think it was anything but too late, Ruth. For all of us.

We all have it in us to be something other than what we are, I thought, but we don't often get a glimpse of what we could have been

People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true.

The more that you dehumanize somebody, the easier it is to kill them... deport them... do whatever you can.

An actress should never, ever, be asked to run beside a van in red disco boots for more than about half a block, and then only if her child is being kidnapped.

In Shakespeare's plays, the mourner hastening to bury his friend is all the time colliding with the reveller hastening to his wine.

Every person has contributed to me as a human, but a lot of the characters I do are ones I created.