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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I make movies based on gut.

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

The whole world has changed after September 11th.

We know as filmmakers where you draw the line.

Dramatics are what keep you in the seats.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I love entertaining people and this is entertainment.

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

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

I only make movies I want to go see.

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

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

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.

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