I basically took something that was extremely erotic and very intentional, and I reduced it to a simple kiss. I got a lot of criticism for that.

You never really know how good of a leader you are until there is something there is lead us to, toward or through or to overcome.

Wherever you are, I will find you and I will bring you home

Everybody loves a winner, but nobody loves a winner.

Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.

The animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it's the natural thing to do.

I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody with the gist of a story, in a nutshell, almost, because it was that interesting.