If you’re going to tear down a hero, you should never forget that you’re tearing down someone else’s hero. You’re tearing down somebody else’s son. You might have to face her one day.
If it’s fifty years from now and it still has the same value, that’s a movie.
I stand up for what I believe. I don’t know if it’s always paid off for me, because I’ve been ridiculed and humiliated.
Field of Dreams is probably our generation’s It’s A Wonderful Life.
We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there.
True movies will never be measured by how much they make – they’ll be measured by how they make you feel.
I haven’t lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that’s from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them.
I’ve had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that’s OK with me. I don’t feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?
I’m getting those familiar feelings, and I’m just going to enjoy the process of getting to know someone again.
If it’s going to be wrecked, I want to make sure I wreck it.
I think there’s true drama in the formation of everything that we know and are standing on the shoulders of.
I think there are good men and women in all decades. We’ve grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day.
I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren’t born. For people who weren’t born, they see how leaders must act under a crisis situation, not trying to be re-elected or not trying to check polls, that they go from their gut check.
One person doesn’t have to shoulder all the responsibility for why a film does or doesn’t do well.
I want to be a part of something, and when we define movies now based on how they do on the weekend. We live in a society of “thumbs up, thumbs down.”
I’ve always known that I’m a little out of vogue.
If you don’t understand your limitations you won’t achieve much in your life.
In America, politicians do whatever to get re-elected, and a lot of decisions that were being made at that time by Kennedy were certain not to get him re-elected.
I don’t read as much as I’d like. I’ve been writing a lot. I’ve been doing a lot of music, but I don’t read as much as I should. I just don’t.
President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O’Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat.