Actors are like magicians. They'll sit there and do all their tricks to each other. It's very competitive, and the goal is to get them bonding, to get them to know the real person as quickly as possible.

You hear again and again that audiences want to see movies that are different, and critics say we make the same thing again and again in Hollywood, then you go and make something different, and you get kicked in the gut for it.

A movie is a certain thing by definition. There's nothing wrong with knocking out a good genre picture.

I think nothing has been filmed as much as World War II.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

My first date was when I was in school. I remember I took her out, and we had sandwiches because I didn't have any money, but it was fun.

I'm not in it for the money. No, no. I like to run a business that's successful... I'm a very creative person.

I have nothing against investment banking, but it's like massaging money rather than creating money.