If you read a part that you want to play, and you already know you have actors you want to work with but it's not on the page, it's not going to be on the screen. So that is the most difficult thing to do for a producer, is to get a script that attracts this kind of talent.

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

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

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.

I should have had more faith in my talent. I think I would have gotten to achieve more, earlier, had I believed in myself. But I let other people take credit for my work.

You've got to learn from your mistakes. And not do them again.

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