Dishonesty, lack of integrity catches up with you.

I'm not Mary Poppins, but I think I functioned with integrity.

If you can market smut and toilet paper, you can market movies.

A really hard lesson to learn is that most of the time, it's not about you.

I've gone far in the movie business, but no matter how far I go, every time I pick up the phone to call Tom Hanks or Robin Williams, I wonder if they'll call me back. And you know what? Sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't.

Historically, Vietnam movies have been profitable. All of them. 'Platoon,' 'Full Metal Jacket,' 'Apocalypse Now,' 'The Deer Hunter.' You're looking at movies that have been not pretty successful, but very successful. The foreign numbers have been extraordinary.