Because you can’t do anything halfway, you’ve got to go all the way in anything you do.
If you have a crisis, whether on a ship or wherever, there are heroes who rise above it.
And yes, it is harder to make movies because budgets are getting smaller, and the companies stocks are down. The only good news on the horizon is that box office has been up by something like 23% from last year, which is great for us. It’s still the cheapest form of entertainment.
Well, I don’t look back and celebrate. I just always worry about the next one.
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.
I think you’ve got to be honest with yourself at what you’re good at. That’s the hardest thing to do.
But once we got them on its feet then they run themselves, unless there’s corrections you have to make.
We are in the transport business. We transport audiences from one place to another.
Anybody who’s really successful has doubts.
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 like to make pictures about people who make a difference.
I make movies based on gut.
You can’t be afraid of hard work or long hours. Sacrifice is important.