We want to create these dramatic situations, whether they are real or not, to entertain audiences.

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.

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.

He kissed her forehead and drifted into an uneasy sleep, listening to the soft snoring of the creature on his chest, one he loved slightly more than he had come to fear.

Truth has beauty power and necessity.

It was God who made me so beautiful. If I weren't, then I'd be a teacher.

Yeah, I think that I have like, faltered, you know, as a human. My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

Every color I can think of and nationality, we were all touched by Dr. King because he made us like each other and respect each other.

The bottom line: Earth is not mediocre.

You don't have to win it, just don't lose it.

Better to have small faith in a great God than to have great faith in a small god.

The life of a winner is the result of an unswerving commitment to a never-ending process of self-completion .