When asked what attribute he most admired in human nature, Mahatma Gandhi replied, simply and immediately, 'Courage'. 'Nonviolence', he said, 'is not to be used ever as the shield of the coward. It is the weapon of the brave.

Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.

I believe we need heroes...we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

If you are directing, you have the opportunity to put your signature on the bottom of the frame. You have the opportunity to say, "This is what I believe. That is my credo. That is what I wish to state."

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

I don't blame people for their mistakes, but I do ask that they pay for them.

If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean.