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

I still that that movie-goers like the experience of leaving their homes and going to have a communal experience, especially in comedies or interactive things where you can get an audience reaction to.

But once we got them on its feet then they run themselves, unless there's corrections you have to make.

Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me.

Well, I don't look back and celebrate. I just always worry about the next one.

And usually the studios they don't want you to have credit for your movies because they want to take credit for the movies because if you get credit for your movies they've got to pay you more.

I only make movies I want to go see.

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

The whole world has changed after September 11th.

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

Dramatics are what keep you in the seats.

If I knew what makes a movie catch on then I'd make hit after hit.

In TV we've used something that I love... it's called process. I love process.

I love entertaining people and this is entertainment.

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

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

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.

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

A lot of it had to do with when it's released and what's out in the marketplace, what's its competition.

We need a very strong military to protect the freedoms we do have.

Yeah sure, I'd love to have all my movies on DVD.

I just don't know what makes a movie catch on and other ones don't.

It's very difficult to release an X-rated movie.

I think we look to the military as something that protects our shores.

Although, I think you look back and you try to learn from your mistakes.

We know as filmmakers where you draw the line.

I like to make pictures about people who make a difference.

The director's who want to be innovative use the DVD as a tool to see what people have done in the past and you have other people who will actually take from better directors and that makes them better directors.

I make movies based on gut.

I mean if you put all of your eggs in one basket, boy, and that thing blows up you've got a real problem.

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

There are a lot of movies that inspire me to do what I do.

I love taking you inside a world that you're not apart of and showing how actually works.

My mother is my manager and so knows exactly what I do and so on.

... do something. Pay your rent for the privilege of living on this beautiful blue green living Earth.

New York feels like the whole city is into dance music. That's not how it felt when I was younger. There was more of a hipster scene.

I felt pressured by continuous touring.

The Polynesian guys are pretty strong without going to the gym.

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

A flowers appeal is in its contradictions so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance so small in size yet big in beauty so short in life yet long on effect.

The cold war was the longest war in United States history. Because of the nuclear capabilities of our enemy it was the most dangerous conflict our country ever faced. Those that won this war did so in obscurity. Those that gave their lives in the cold war have never been properly honored.

If taxes are laid upon us in any shape without our having a legal representation where they are laid, are we not reduced from the character of free subjects to the miserable state of tributary slaves? We claim British rights not by charter only! We are born to them.

Minneapolis has two seasons: Road Removal and Snow Repair.

John and I had a few meetings about what direction the sequel should take. I made some real insane suggestions. True to what you'd expect, he ignored them all and just picked up Halloween II where the original left off.

Only an open mind is big enough to contain the secrets of the universe.

I guess I'm trying to write stuff that I, as a viewer, would connect to.

Female users are the unsung heroines behind the most engaging, fastest growing, and most valuable consumer Internet and e-commerce companies.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

People assume that a lot of pop artists don't write their songs. That, for me, is super frustrating because I think it detracts from some of the art and some of the craft of what we do. I'm at the helm of it, and I think that is what people don't see.