Sometimes we'll only get one script in a year that we want to make that we feel is good enough.

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.

What I do is try to stay away from the hot subjects.

Integrative thinkers consider the problem as a whole, rather than breaking it down and farming out the parts.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest. Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that I see no reason to promote more confrontations.

Every single one of us can do something, however small, to make a difference.

You have to speak your mind, but without being cruel.

Singing your own songs is all about individual expression

When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there.

It has been said that the reason we establish relationships is to assure ourselves of a witness to our lives.