If you have a crisis, whether on a ship or wherever, there are heroes who rise above it.

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.

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.

Command and obedience are but unfortunate necessities of human life: society in equality is its normal state.

Accept your defeats With your head up and your eyes open With the grace of woman not the grief of a child ...

Never tell anyone what you are going to do till you've done it.

Baseball is the greatest of all team sports.

If more husbands and fathers would put as much energy into their marriages and families as they do their jobs, the world would change.

I've been wanting to have my own family since I was young. It just took me a while to find the perfect woman.

If you only know something one way, then you don't really know it.

I got an agent and went up for the part of my first film, Five Gates to Hell.

Action breeds inspiration more than inspiration breeds action.