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

I just don`t know what makes a movie catch on and other ones don`t.

I think that there`s a certain synchronicity, so far, with what I like and with what the audiences like. But I don`t make the movies for them. I make them because I wanna go see them myself.

I think all of us like to do things to the best of our ability and it has nothing to do with competition factor, it has to do with quality.

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

Dramatics are what keep you in the seats.

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.

The whole world has changed after September 11th.

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

Well, I don`t look back and celebrate. I just always worry about the next one.

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

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 make movies based on gut.

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

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

If I made films for the critics, or for someone else, I`d probably be living in some small Hollywood studio apartment.

Because you can`t do anything halfway, you`ve got to go all the way in anything you do.

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.

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

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

We don`t live our lives the same way; we don`t look at things the same way. We`ve changed the way we travel; we`ve changed just about everything.

I was always looking to be entertained. We lead such full lives and a lot of us don`t lead very pleasant lives and don`t like what we do... My dad worked his whole life as a salesman and that wasn`t what he really wanted to do. He looked forward to two weeks vacation every year and he used to say to me, `Whatever you do, make sure you do something you really like so you don`t just have your vacation to look forward to.` And I love movies.

Every time I make a movie I think that it`s going to be my last one, I think that no one is going to show up. I always have this sense that they`re all going to fail. I am scared to death.

I don`t make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.

We are in the transportation business. We transport audiences from one place to another.

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

I love entertaining people and this is entertainment.

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 only make movies I want to go see.

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

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

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

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.

We know as filmmakers where you draw the line.

Top Gun is no different from Pirates of the Caribbean - in fact they`re very similar because both movies were working in genres that were dead. Fighter pilot movies had all failed and pirate movies had been dead for a long time. We approached them from a different angle.

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

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

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

Video is another way of seeing movies.

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

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