Because you can't do anything halfway, you've got to go all the way in anything you do.

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.

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.

Questions after a fatal fall of a giant are like lighting a fire by a breeze laden sea.

To me if you're going have a show, it should be a show. It should be entertaining and take you on a journey.

The Heavenly City already exists and the departed Saints are already there!

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.

There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.

It appeared as if I had invited the audience into the water with me, and it conveyed the sensation that being in there was absolutely delicious

The great question, whether man is of nature or above her.

I don't feel bound by the ebbs and flows of musical trends, or what's happening with new music in general.

It will work. I am a marketing genius.

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.