You've got to learn from your mistakes. And not do them again.

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.

She burned too bright for this world.

The power of weapons is transient and destroys everything. The power of love is everlasting and creates all things.

I'm going to tell the American people what I believe will make this country great.

But I really believe that if you have the ability, there is an obligation to make people laugh

My inventory of people who can save me is down to just me.

To construct a proper privacy, making it a privilege rather than a burden, we first need to construct a community-love, family, politics, art.

In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy.

Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!

...you have to understand that motherhood has to be your priority. It's important work.