I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.

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.

But then again, I shouldn't judge. That is, after all, my pet peeve.

History is orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and known, but cannot be avoided or cured.

I’m much more than a writer – I’m someone who puts different words together in an interesting way.

As a company, we have to be very transparent. We are in a business very related to finance, and I want this company to last long, and I want this company to be audited by everyone.

Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.

Creative people have to be fed from the divine source.

Oral musical traditions are rooted in assured and scrupulous faith.

I have gone to the forest.

One of the primary reasons why people struggle financially is because they cannot control their emotion of fear.

Attack where he is unprepared; sally forth when he does not expect you.